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6.51987

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.

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Episodes

1

Anastasia: Her True Story

2

Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero

3

Augustus: First of the Emperors

4

Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror

5

Caligula: Reign of Madness

6

Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road

7

Constantine: The Christian Emperor

8

David Copperfield: Master of Illusion

9

Diana: The People's Princess

10

Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street

11

Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society

12

Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic

13

Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America

14

Eliot Ness: Untouchable

15

Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

16

Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch

17

Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight

18

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer

19

Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob

20

General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman

21

George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier

22

Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age

23

Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness

24

J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire

25

JFK: A Personal Story

26

Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life

27

Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty

28

Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World

29

Justinian: The Last of the Romans

30

Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post

31

Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master

32

Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison

33

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream

34

Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon

35

Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion

36

Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady

37

Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings

38

Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire

39

Nero: The Power and the Madness

40

Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero

41

R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince

42

Sam Giancana

43

Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire

44

Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man

45

Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind

46

Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary

47

The Gambinos: First Family of Crime

48

The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition

49

The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure

50

Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All

51

Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution

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