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person_profile-Jac Venza

Jac Venza Age: 99

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jac Venza

Date of Birth:

Jan 01, 1926

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Jac Venza

    Jac Venza is a public television producer who is directly responsible for most of the theatre and music programs that have been seen on PBS since its creation in 1970. From the early 1960s until his retirement in 2005, Venza brought such programs as NET Playhouse, Live from Lincoln Center, American Playhouse, American Masters, and Great Performances to millions of viewers. He won a Personal Peabody Award in 1998.

    He began his career on CBS in the 1950s, where he began to notice the scarcity of programming devoted to the fine arts on television. It was his dream to bring more of it to the home screen on a regular basis, but he did not receive a full opportunity to do so until the creation of National Educational Television, where it soon became possible, thanks largely to Venza, to see great dramatic literature regularly performed by some of the world's most renowned actors. A then-unknown Dustin Hoffman made his first major television appearance in a play - Ronald Ribman's The Journey of the Fifth Horse - on NET in 1966. NET Playhouse was perhaps the first television anthology to present commercial-free, full-length productions (rather than one-hour or ninety-minute adaptations) of theatrical classics such as Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. When NET became PBS, Venza quickly launched Great Performances, which is still running today.

    Upon his retirement from PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded Venza the Ralph Lowell medal. He held the record for the most Emmy nominations for an individual - 57 - until 2010.

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Filmography of

Jac Venza

Found 41 Movies in total

The Topdog Diaries

Executive Producer

... 2002

The Women

Executive Producer

... 2002

Fosse

Executive Producer

... 2002

Crazy For You

Executive Producer

... 1999

Two by Dove

Executive Producer

... 1995

The World of Jim Henson

Executive Producer

... 1994

... 1991

... 1987

Alice in Wonderland

Executive Producer

... 1983

Fifth of July

Executive Producer

... 1982

Working

Executive Producer

... 1982

... 1982

... 1982

The Shady Hill Kidnapping

Executive Producer

... 1982

Guests of the Nation

Executive Producer

... 1981

The Five Forty-Eight

Executive Producer

... 1979

The Sorrows of Gin

Executive Producer

... 1979

Uncommon Women and Others

Executive Producer

... 1979

... 1978

Tartuffe

Executive Producer

... 1978

The Trial of the Moke

Executive Producer

... 1978

The Patriots

Executive Producer

... 1976

Beyond the Horizon

Executive Producer

... 1975

... 1975

The Year of the Dragon

Executive Producer

... 1975

Feasting with Panthers

Executive Producer

... 1974

June Moon

Executive Producer

... 1974

Enemies

Executive Producer

... 1974

A Touch of the Poet

Executive Producer

... 1974

The Rimers of Eldritch

Executive Producer

... 1972

Home

Producer

... 1972

Hogan's Goat

Executive Producer

... 1971

Paradise Lost

Executive Producer

... 1971

A Memory of Two Mondays

Executive Producer

... 1971

Dragon Country

Executive Producer

... 1970

Let Me Hear You Whisper

Executive Producer

... 1969

An Enemy of the People

Executive Producer

... 1966

... 1966

... 1966

... 1966