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Biography

1987 · TV-PG · 27 seasons · 356 episodes

Created by David L. Wolper and Agnes Nixon

6.7

TMDB audience score
36 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.

About 356h to watch every episode. An estimate: 356 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 60 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Peter Graves
    Self - Host
    267 episodes

  • Jack Perkins
    194 episodes

  • Scarlett Johansson
    Self
    1 episode

  • Aileen Wuornos
    Self (archive footage)
    1 episode

  • Dawn Botkins
    Self - Aileen's Childhood Friend
    1 episode

  • Arlene Pralle
    Self
    1 episode

  • Steve Glazer
    Self - Defense Attorney
    1 episode

  • Tyria Moore
    Self - Aileen's Girlfriend
    1 episode

  • Donna Jay Fulks
    Aileen Wuornos (voice)
    1 episode

  • Eva Braun
    Self (archive footage)
    1 episode

  • Adolf Hitler
    Self (archive footage)
    1 episode

  • Paul Kaup
    Narrator
    1 episode

  • Heinrich Hoffmann
    Self - Photographer (archive footage)
    1 episode

  • Nerin Gun
    Self - Biographer (archive footage)
    1 episode

  • Justin Barrett
    Narrator (voice)
    1 episode

  • Kevin Smith
    1 episode

  • Dave Chappelle
    Himself (archival footage)
    1 episode

  • Ken Tucker
    Himself
    1 episode

Seasons