pi lambda phi
film, television and radio
Table:
Name
Original chapter
Initiation
year
Notability
Ref(s)

Norm Abram
MA Kappa Nu
1971
American carpenter, PBS shows, This Old House & The New Yankee Workshop.
[8]

Paulo Benedeti
FL Kappa Epsilon
1993
Actor who portrayed Jesse Blue on the soap opera the Guiding Light from 1997–2000 and Antonio Dominguez on the Bold and the Beautiful from 2001-2002. He also had a part in the movie Wild Things.
[8][29]

Lewis Black
NC Omega Beta
1968
Grammy award winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He hosted Comedy Central's Root of All Evil and is the author of Me of Little Faith.
[8]

Howard Cosell
Π 1965
NY Gamma
1936
American sports journalist and former member of the ABC Monday Night Football crew.
[8]

Andy Deemer
PA Epsilon Zeta
1991
Exploitation film writer, producer and director for Troma Entertainment.
[8]

Gene Kolber
PA Omega Gamma
1950
Known as radio and television personality Gene Kaye, his on-air career lasted over 40 years. His number one ranked television show, Notre Dame Bandstand aired directly after Dick Clark's American Bandstand. He promoted local PA acts the Cyrkle and Jay & The Techniques,the latter being the first pop group to achieve national prominence where the singers were black and the musicians were white. He partnered with Dick Clark in his American Bandstand Grill. His daughter Suzy Kolber is a sportscaster for ESPN.
[8][30][31]

Barry Farber
Π 1975
NC Omega Beta
1949
is an American conservative radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. He is the author of Making People Talk: You Can Turn Every Conversation into a Magic Moment, How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own and How to Not Make the Same Mistake Once. He has also written articles appearing in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, the Washington Post, and the Saturday Review.
[8]

James Ferman
NY Delta
1948
(11 April 1930 – 24 December 2002) was an American television and theatre director. He was the Secretary (later termed Director) of the British Board of Film Classification from 1975 to 1999.[32]
[33]

Kevin James
NY Kappa Gamma
1985
American comedian, actor, writer and producer, lead character on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.
[34]

Stanley Kramer
Π 1950
NY Gamma
1933
Oscar Award nominated American film director and producer, Inherit The Wind, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, winner Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
[8]

Albert Lewin
NY Gamma
1915?
American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Lewin was appointed head of the MGM studio's script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Producing credits during this period include True Confession (1937), Spawn of the North (1938), Zaza (1939) and So Ends Our Night (1941).In the early 1940s, he formed an independent production company with David Loew and Stanley Kramer.
[33]

David Loew
Π 1952
NY Gamma
1915
American film producer. He and his brother Arthur Loew were the twin sons of MGM founder Marcus Loew. After being elected to the board of directors of Loew's, Inc., in 1922, he resigned from the studio in 1935 to launch an independent production career. In the early 1940s, he formed an independent production company with Albert Lewin and Stanley Kramer.
[33]

Abby Mann
Π 1963
PA Alpha Delta
1946
(b. 1927 - d. 2008) was an American film writer and producer best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama. His most famous work is the drama Judgment at Nuremberg, which was initially a television drama aired in 1959. Stanley Kramer directed the 1961 film adaptation, for which Mann received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He created the television series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas. Mann was executive producer, but was credited as a writer also on many episodes.
[8][35][36]

Michael Mann
WI Omega
1961
Academy Award nominated & Emmy Award winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Aviator.
[8]

Louis B. Mayer
CA Kappa

(b. 1884 - d. 1957) was a Russian-born American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".
[8][37]

Michael Piller
NC Omega Beta
1967
Was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.
[8]

Budd Schulberg
Π 1950
NH Pi
1933
American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He wrote What Makes Sammy Run?, The Harder They Fall, and the 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. He was also a sports writer and former chief boxing correspondent for Sports Illustrated and was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his contributions to the sport.
[8]

Shepard Traube
PA Eta

Film Director and Broadway Producer and Director. Noted works were the film Hitler, Beast of Berlin based on his novel, Goose Steps and the play he directed, The Patriots. He was added to the Hollywood Blacklist in 1950.
[38][39][40]

Robert M.W. Vogel
Π 1953
NY Alpha
1915
MGM publicist who helped establish the Academy Award category for best foreign language film. From international publicist, he rose to head the studio's international production and publicity department and was MGM's production code liaison for 20 years. A veteran member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he chaired the Foreign Language Film Award Committee from its inception.
[8][41]

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Provide only the chosen type(s), separated by commas if multiple, within the list in this JSON: {"answer": ["ANSWER"]}.

{"answer": ["people.person"]}