The Promise of Television - Production & Contact Info

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55 cast members

Name	Known for
Edwin Newman Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Pelican Brief (1993)
Bill Moyers Self Self See fewer	Bill Moyers' Journal (1972)
John F. White Self Self See fewer	Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (2011)
David L. Wolper Self (as David Wolper) Self (as David Wolper) See fewer	L.A. Confidential (1997)
David Attenborough Self Self See fewer	Blue Planet II (2017)
James Comer Self (as James P. Comer) Self (as James P. Comer) See fewer	Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976)
Barbara Corday Self Self See fewer	American Dream (1981)
Peggy Charren Self Self See fewer	Buy Me That! A Kids' Survival Guide to TV Advertising (1989)
Fran Allison Self Self See fewer	The Mikado (1954)
Joan Ganz Cooney Self Self See fewer	Sesame Street (1969)
Mikhail Baryshnikov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Turning Point (1977)
Kathleen Battle Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Leonard Bernstein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958)
William F. Buckley Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
LeVar Burton Kunta Kinte (archive footage) Kunta Kinte (archive footage) See fewer	Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Richard Burton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Joseph Campbell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	77-Star Wars-17 (2018)
Diahann Carroll Julia Baker (archive footage) Julia Baker (archive footage) See fewer	Julia (1968)
Pau Casals Self (archive footage) (as Pablo Casals) Self (archive footage) (as Pablo Casals) See fewer	Jackie (V) (2016)
Bill Cosby Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (archive footage) Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable (archive footage) See fewer	The Cosby Show (1984)
Abba Eban Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Double Edge (1992)
Suzanne Farrell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1967)
Benny Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Allied (2016)
Martha Graham Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lamentation (1976)
Richard Heffner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Open Mind (1956)
Eric Hoffer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Billie Holiday Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Minority Report (2002)
Vladimir Horowitz Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
Robert Keeshan Captain Kangaroo Captain Kangaroo See fewer	Captain Kangaroo (1955)
James Levine Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Robert MacNeil Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hamlet (2000)
Peter Martins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Merry Widow (1983)
Ali Mazrui Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Africans: A Triple Heritage (1986)
Joan Miró Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Marsalis on Music (1995)
Rita Moreno Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	West Side Story (1961)
Edward R. Murrow Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Reinhold Niebuhr Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Viewpoint (1959)
Georgia O'Keeffe Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Marsalis on Music (1995)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Panorama (I) (1953)
Geoffrey Owens Elvin Tibideaux (archive footage) Elvin Tibideaux (archive footage) See fewer	The Cosby Show (1984)
Phylicia Rashad Clair Huxtable (archive footage) Clair Huxtable (archive footage) See fewer	The Cosby Show (1984)
Dan Rather Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Evening News (1963)
Paul Reubens Pee-Wee Herman Pee-Wee Herman See fewer	Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Fred Rogers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968)
Artur Rubinstein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Truman Show (1998)
Bertrand Russell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Reductio: Adventures in Ideas (2019)
Carl Sagan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Contact (1997)
Andrés Segovia Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Labor Day (2013)
Lesley Stahl Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Eagle Eye (2008)
Arturo Toscanini Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Delusions of Love (1970)
Mike Wallace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	60 Minutes (1968)
Ethel Waters Beulah (archive footage) Beulah (archive footage) See fewer	Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Rebecca West Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Reds (1981)
Elie Wiesel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	L'aube (1986)
Tom Wolfe Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Right Stuff (1983)

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