American Masters (2001 - )

American Masters

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Release Date: 2001

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An acclaimed series of biographies of artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and Hollywood stars. Profiles of Alexander Calder, Paul Simon, Charlie Chaplin and music producer John Hammond won Peabody Awards, while films about Edward R. Murrow, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish and Leonard Bernstein (among others) won Emmys, and a study of the Algonquin Round Table won a 1987 Academy Award.

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2018, PBS, 12 episodes

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2017, PBS, 13 episodes

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2017, PBS, 5 episodes

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2016, PBS, 9 episodes

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2015, PBS, 7 episodes

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2014, PBS, 9 episodes

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2013, PBS, 5 episodes

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2012, PBS, 8 episodes

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2011, PBS, 6 episodes

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2010, PBS, 8 episodes

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2009, PBS, 9 episodes

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2008, PBS, 9 episodes

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2007, PBS, 8 episodes

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2006, PBS, 9 episodes

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2004, PBS, 10 episodes

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2003, PBS, 6 episodes

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2002, PBS, 8 episodes

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2001, PBS, 8 episodes

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Cast

Neil Young
Gore Vidal
as Himself
Mel Brooks
Alec Baldwin
Kenneth Branagh
as Narrator
Goran Visnjic
as Narrator
Anne Jackson
as Reader
Simon Scott
as Narrator
Frank O. Gehry
Katie Couric
Alicia Alonso
Stanley Tucci
as Narrator
Muddy Waters
Willie Nelson
Sydney Pollack
as Narrator
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Gehry
Turhan Bey
Johnny Carson
Robert Redford
Meryl Streep
Dustin Hoffman
Elvis Presley
Joanne Woodward
Andre Braugher
as Narrator
Tony Roberts
as Narrator
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ron Rifkin
as Narrator
I.M. Pei
Bill T. Jones
David Geffen
Alicia Alonso
Bono
Harry Belafonte
as Narrator
Alice Waters
Joni Mitchell
Itzhak Perlman
Oliver Platt
as Narrator
Bob Dylan
David Hockney
Charles M. Schulz
Jeff Bridges
Billie Jean King
Madeleine Albright
Clint Eastwood
Calvin Trillin
Stanley Tucci
Meryl Streep
Steven Spielberg
R.W. Apple
Ray Bradbury
Joe DiMaggio
Sydney Pollack
Max Charruyer
David Michaelis
Jerome Robbins
Elizabeth Marvel
as Louisa May Alcott
Jim Morrison
James Levine
Chris Cornell
Dyanna Taylor
Alfred Molina
as Rothko
Gene Kelly
Paul Newman
as Reader
Harris Yulin
as Voice of Henry Luce
Paul Matteson
Gloria Allred
Matthew Broderick
Elliot Roberts
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Isabella Rossellini
as Herself
Oliver Platt
Isabel Keating
as Judy Garland
Jane Alexander
Meryl Streep
Kathy Griffin
George Plimpton
Donald Saddler
Billy Crystal
as Bob Hope
Julie Andrews
Joan Chen
Danny Glover
Israel Lopez
Kevin Spacey
as Narrator
Eric Clapton
Tom Hanks
Campbell Scott
as F.Scott Fitzgerald
Cyd Charisse
Audra McDonald
Waylon Jennings
Sydney Pollack
John Cox
Carlos Santana
Tom Hanks
Andre Braugher
Tony Roberts
Crosby
Forrest J Ackerman
Harris Yulin
Helen Mirren
Andy Garcia
Plácido Domingo
Layne Staley
Joy Browne
Frederic Franklin
David Crosby
Michael Eisner
Jules Feiffer
Tsai Chin
Daniel Gerroll
as Bronson Alcott
Bob Bursey
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Kenneth Branagh
Robert John Burke
Tim Robbins
as Reader
Simon Scott
Clarke Peters
as James Brown
Arthur Miller
John Densmore
Ashley Judd
Laurie Anderson
Trevor Nunn
Leontyne Price
Sarah Sarandon
as Reader
Jeremy Northam
as Cary Grant
David Strathairn
Bette Midler
Ray Santos
Bruce Crawford
Van Jones
Morgan Freeman
Dustin Hoffman
Laura Linney
as Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Paul McCartney
Goran Visnjic
as Robert Capa
Charles Durning
Martin Scorsese
Bob Geldof
Robby Krieger
Debbie Reynolds
Michael Pollan
Harris Yulin
as Henry Luce
Gloria Steinem
Stephen Gong
Dossy Peabody
as Abigail Alcott
Jack Irons
Melissa Rivers
Susan Jaffe
Cardini
Sara Blakely
Patsy Ruth Miller
Ray Charles
Ken Silvers
Tim Russell
Martin Scorsese
Leah Cox
Robin Williams
Chris Noth
Sue Scott
Robert Wierzel
Julie Kent
Margaret Cho
Tony Kushner
Toni Morrison
Eric Schlosser
Wynton Marsalis
Jackie Coogan
Eli Wallach
as Reader
David Halberstam
James Naughton
as Ernest Hemingway
Hugh Hefner
Jane Alexander
as Ednah Cheney
Elena Lopez
Jonathan Friend
Celeste Holmes
Frank Langella
Peter Bogdanovich
Gwyneth Jones
Ray Manzarek
Slydini
William Sadler
as Ernest Hemingway
Leslie Caron
Ben Folds
Lyle Lovett
Marcia Gay Harden
as Willa Cather
Dennis Hopper
James Hong
Dave Abbruzzese
Isabel Allende
Kate Forrester
Peter Franzén
as Eero Saarinen
Jon Stewart
Anika Noni Rose
as Lorraine Hansberry
Andre Previn
Kate Burton
as Hemingway Fiction
Philip Johnson
John de los Santos
Joe Castagna
Marian Cunningham
Kevin Spacey
Anne Jackson
Dan Ford
Ronald Freeman
Marianna Bassham
as May Alcott
Welz Kauffman
Luciano Pavarotti
Amy Irving
as Fitzgerald's works
Mark Knopfler
Dave Matthews
Letitia Baldrige
Eve Arnold
Fred Newman
David Henry Hwang
John Santos
Edie Falco
Blythe Danner
as Aline Saarinen
Nathan Lane
Joanne Woodward
as Reader
Johnny Depp
Alexei Ratmansky
Al Flosso
Clarke Peters
Kathleen Turner
Adolph Green
Jeff Koons
as Andy Warhol
Patrick Wayne
Julian Schnabel
Tom Keith
Janet Wong
Kinky Friedman
Alan Brinkley
Franz Grundheber
Ron Rifkin
Linda Amendola
as Anna Alcott
Kevin McKenzie
Frank Langella
LaTanya Richardson
Paul Newman
Gloria Estefan
Kurt Cobain
Ruth Reichl
Kevin Kline
Mark Blum
Leif-Erik Nygårds
Nancy Kwan
Dai Vernon
Elizabeth Holmes
Paul Simon
Robert Plant
Tim Robbins
Christopher Lee
Betsey Johnson
Chris Sarandon
Taylor Hackford
Richard Belzer
Craig Webb
Jesse L. Martin
Jerry Douglas
Emilio Estefan
Asli Bulbul
Misty Copeland
Charles Miller
Betty Comden
Maggie Bofill
Andrew V. McLaglen
Ken Cheeseman
as Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Franco
Dan Bucatinsky
Ed Ruscha
Steven Spielberg
Jimmy Page
Alicia Keys
Kelsey Grammer
Susan Sarandon
Blair Brown
Mark Rydell
Anjelica Huston
Prudence Johnson
Ang Lee
Beno Chapman
as Henry David Thoreau
Andy Garcia
Gillian Anderson
Ben Schnetzer
Leslie Anderson
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Denis Leary
Steve Martin
Bryan Cranston
Michael Crumpsty
Christopher Antonio William Lancaster
Dick Cavett
Aimee Mullins
Johnny Hallyday
Mildred Friedman
Pauline Black
Denis O'Hare
as Edgar Allan Poe
Eli Wallach
Cass Warner Sperling
Peter Haydu
as Charles Lane
Garry Shandling
Meryl Streep
Damián Alcázar
as Jose Clemente Orozco
Jearlyn Steele
James Leong Jr.
Marcelo Gomes
Joanne Woodward
Michael Ortiz
Lily Tomlin
Rosanne Cash
Joe Ely Band
Justin Lin
Jean Davidson
Nancy Pelosi
Jon Hamm
Linda Emond
Lewis Wheeler
as Laddie
Hee Seo
Molly Schreider
as Teen Louisa
Brad Garrett
Barry Diller
Robin Williams
Jennifer Homans
Rosie Perez
Morgan Freeman
Kid Rock
Bjorn G. Amelan
Peter Friedman
Lisa Lu
Kathleen McNenny
Luise Rainer
Charles Jenks
Emily Strikeman
as Child Louisa
Anna Kisselgoff
Linda Williams
Shonda Rhimes
Kyle Maude
Greg Giraldo
Muhammad Ali
Jerome Begin
Jeffrey Ross
Clive Barnes
Clive Hirschhorn
Martin Moran
Herbert Muschamp
James Shigeta
Haley Garvin
as Toddler Louisa
Wendy Williams
Amy Tan
George Mertogen
Dick Clark
Clarissa Sinceno
Don Rickles
Norman Glymph
Jerry Lee Lewis
Maggie Quigley
as Child May Alcott
Nia Wordlaw
Edwin Chan
Ellen Adair
as Teen Anna Alcott
Wayne Wang
David Muir
George Rios
Lindsay Jones
Laurie Anderson
B.D. Wong
Anna Finklestein
as Teen Beth Alcott
Sandra Guzmán
Sherry Goffin Kondor
Jocelyn Pickett
Sven Neumann
Tim Paulson
Eleanor Farris
as 'Lulu' May Alcott Nieriker
Billy Sammeth
Michael Phillip Simpson
as John Suhre
Joe Butler
as Young John Muir
Rolf Fehlbaum
Thomas Krens
Bob Jolly
as Civil War Doctor
Howard Weamer
as Old John Muir
Milton Wexler
Matt Perusse
as 'Swearing' Fruitlander
Patsy Fulhorst
as Jeanne Carr
Chuck Arnoldi
Matt Delacy
as 'Naked' Fruitlander
Lena Dunham
John Amos
as Dr. Bledsoe
Amy Poehler
Crystal Lisbon
as Anna Weld
Peter Barent Lewis
Hal Foster
Paul Benjamin
as Grandfather
Carl Reiner
Norman Rosenthal
Jacques C. Smith
as Invisible Man
Juan Ignacio Vidante
Chan Marshall
Nerea Abasolo
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Mandy Patinkin
Kevin Spacey
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
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Series Details

TV Network: PBS
Premiere Date:
Genre: Documentary
Executive Producers: Michael Kantor, Susan Lacy, Brett Ratner, Roger Michael Mayer, Michael Peyser, Andrew Karsch, Peter Brant, Michael Cohl, Stanley Buchthal, Fisher Stevens, Larry Gagosian, Diane von Furstenberg, George Feltenstein, Erik Gordon, Clint Eastwood, Glenn Aveni, Calvin Skaggs, Norman Lear, Roy Furman, Billie Jean King, Gerry Richman, Jon Brewer, Toshi Seeger, William Ackman, Sandie Viquez Pedlow, Tina France, John Amos, Richard Browner, Tory Kiam, Debbie Linett, Larry Linett, Sally Jo Fifer, Stone Douglass, Penny Lieberman, Susan Sarandon, Jay Alix, Betsy Berg, Dick Connette, Taylor Materne, Ingrid Duran, Krysanne Katsoolis, Peter Gelb, Celia Zantz, Regina Sculley, Catherine Pino, Daniel Wheeler, Michael Slap Sloane, Una Jackman, Derek Britt, Suzi Dietz, Tom Kirdahy, Albert M. Tapper, Mark Lee, Gregory Hall, Susan Jaffe Tane, Duffy Violante, Buddy Steves, Suzanne Kessler, Nick De Grunwald, David Ortiz, Rowena Young, Marion Swaybill, Cathy Greenwold, Michele Anthony, Pamela Roberts, Shirley Kessler, Terry Gross, Avon Kirkland, Gordon Quinn, Kamilah Forbes, Gail Levin, Reuben Cannon, Karin Greenfield-Sanders, Richard Alcock, Elliott Halpern, Marquetta Glass, Steve Sarowitz, Elizabeth Trojian, Michael Isip, Don Hahn, Lylette Pizarro, Regina Scully, Alan Berg, Robert Louie, Caroline Stevens, David W. Louie, Chris Gardner, Abe Zimmerman, John McCall, Raymond C. Lambert, Marc N. Weiss, Amy McCall, Anne Akiko Meyers, Hiro Yamagata, Peter Evans, Steve Boyd, Maja Horffmann, Dominique Lasseur, Lisa Thomas, Noah C. Haeussner, Suzanne Weil, Dennis Joyce, Julie Goldman, Phyllis Alexander, Kris Meyer, Antonio Weiss, Stacey Offman, Susannah Weiss, Michael Raimondi, William R. Hearst III, Toby Barlow, Darryl Ford Williams, Harold Ramis, Bill Deacon, Geoff Kempin, Robert Gordon, Verna Harrah, Robert Gordon, Chantal Bernheim, Terry Shand, Morgan Neville
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