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Perry Miller Adato  Television Producer, Director, Writer

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Perry Miller Adato

MB Seminar, 1981

Director Perry Miller Adato talks about the film Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me (1970).
 

Career Includes

Film Researcher, Film Coordinator, for CBS shows, including Adventure, The Seven Lively Arts, and Odyssey; Coproducer, The Best is Yet to Be (1954–64); Film Researcher and Associate Producer, NET (1964–67); Producer, Director, NET (1968–72), Channel 13/WNET (1972–92, 1998–2001, 2005–08), Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe (1968), Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me (1970), The Great Radio Comedians (1972), An Eames Celebration: Several Worlds of Charles and Ray Eames (1973), Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia (1975), Georgia O’Keeffe (1977), Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate (1978), Picasso: A Painter’s Diary (1980), Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences (1982), Eugene O’Neill: A Glory of Ghosts (1986), A White Garment of Churches (1989, also Writer), Great Tales in Asian Art (1995), Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001, also Writer); Executive Producer, Series, The Originals—Women in Art (1976–78), Art of the Western World (1986–89); Producer, Director, Work-in-Progress, Writer, Paris—the Luminous Years (2005–08)
 

Education

Marshalov School of Drama and The New School for Social Research; Honorary Doctorate, DHL, Doctor of Humane Letters, Illinois Wesleyan University
 

Born

Yonkers, New York

 

 

 

 

 


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