David Susskind

Producer, Talent Agency Head

About

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

December 19, 1920

Died

February 22, 1987

Filmography

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Fear on Trial (1975)

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983)

Executive Producer

The Wall (1982)

Executive Producer

Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)

Executive Producer

The Bunker (1981)

Executive Producer

Crisis at Central High (1981)

Executive Producer

Photos & Videos

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Buffalo Bill And The Indians (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Historical Is Yours

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Better Than Alice Faye

Notes

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1988

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Fear on Trial (1975)

Producer (Feature Film)

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983)

Executive Producer

The Wall (1982)

Executive Producer

Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)

Executive Producer

The Bunker (1981)

Executive Producer

Crisis at Central High (1981)

Executive Producer

Loving Couples (1980)

Executive Producer

Father Figure (1980)

Executive Producer

The Plutonium Incident (1980)

Executive Producer

Sex and the Single Parent (1979)

Executive Producer

Transplant (1979)

Executive Producer

Walking Through the Fire (1979)

Executive Producer

The Family Man (1979)

Executive Producer

Home to Stay (1978)

Executive Producer

All Things Bright And Beautiful (1978)

Executive Producer

Breaking Up (1978)

Executive Producer

Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (1978)

Executive Producer

Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)

Executive Producer

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977)

Executive Producer

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)

Executive Producer

Goldenrod (1977)

Executive Producer

Tell Me My Name (1977)

Executive Producer

The War Between the Tates (1977)

Executive Producer

Truman at Potsdam (1976)

All Creatures Great And Small (1975)

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)

Executive Producer

The Country Girl (1974)

Crown Matrimonial (1974)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More (1974)

The Glass Menagerie (1973)

The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)

All the Way Home (1971)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

The Glass Menagerie (1966)

All the Way Home (1963)

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Edge of the City (1957)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

All the Way Home (1963)

Cast (Special)

The Television Academy Hall of Fame (1989)

The Second City 25th Anniversary Special (1985)

Producer (Special)

Lyndon Johnson (1987)

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Winston Churchill (1986)

Executive Producer

Lovers and Other Strangers (1983)

Executive Producer

Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare (1982)

Executive Producer

Tom and Joann (1978)

Executive Producer

The Norman Conquests (1978)

The World Beyond (1978)

Executive Producer

The World of Darkness (1977)

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)

The World of Magic (1975)

The Price (1971)

Of Mice and Men (1968)

Dial "M" for Murder (1967)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1961)

Executive Producer

The Heiress (1961)

The Power and the Glory (1961)

The Best of Anything (1960)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1960)

Full Moon Over Brooklyn (1960)

The Man in the Dog Suit (1960)

Ninotchka (1960)

Call Me Back (1960)

Three in One (1960)

Ten Little Indians (1959)

Miracle on 34th Street (1959)

The Strawberry Blonde (1959)

The Bells of St. Mary's (1959)

Hansel and Gretel (1958)

Executive Producer

Producer (TV Mini-Series)

Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980)

Executive Producer

Blind Ambition (1979)

Executive Producer

Eleanor and Franklin (1976)

Executive Producer

Life Events

Videos

Buffalo Bill And The Indians (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Historical Is Yours Amid the continuous rehearsal, first appearance by Burt Lancaster as Ned Buntline, Joel Grey as producer Salisbury, Geraldine Chaplin as Annie Oakley, John Considine her husband and manager, Harvey Keitel the nephew of the title character, Kevin McCarthy as Major Burke, and Paul Newman heard but not seen, in Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill And The Indians Or , Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 1976.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Better Than Alice Faye Opening flourish from director Martin Scorsese, young Alice (Mia Bendixsen) with Alice Faye's take on "You'll Never Know," then Mott The Hoople with Ian Hunter's "All The Way From Memphis," grown-up Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with son Tom (Alfred Lutter), in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Where Or When Alice (Ellen Burtsyn) brings Jacobs (Murray Moston) into a Phoenix bar in hopes of getting hired in his competing bar as a singer, her audition medley beginning with Rodgers and Hart's Where Or When, camera by Kent Wakeford, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Bride Screamed Murder First appearance of Jodie Foster (as "Audrey"), after school in Tucson with Tommy (Albert Lutter), who then joins mom Alice (Ellen Burstyn), at the diner where David (Kris Kristofferson) is making his first offer, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Buffalo Bill And The Indians (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Piece Of Our History Identified as a Robert Altman opening, though hardly necessary, with Alan Rudolph's 90% original script (with a nod to a play by Arthur Kopit), shooting at the Stoney Indian Reservation in Alberta, with narration by Humphrey Gratz who plays the "old soldier," from Buffalo Bill And The Indians Or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 1976, starring Paul Newman, cinematography by Paul Lohmann.

Buffalo Bill And The Indians (1976) -- (Movie Clip) The Last Thing A Man Wants To Do Director Robert Altman, after nearly 15 minutes, finally shows his star and title character, Paul Newman, on camera, in rehearsal for his Wild West Show, introduced by producer Joel Grey, with Harvey Keitel as his nephew and secretary, Geraldine Chaplin as Annie Oakley, John Considine her husband, in Buffalo Bill And The Indians, 1976.

Buffalo Bill And The Indians (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't All That Different From Real Life Paul Newman (title character), with his publicist (Kevin McCarthy, as “Arizona John Burke,” also a historical figure) insists on a staged greeting for his newly recruited Wild West Show co-star, at first mistaking interpreter Halsey (Will Sampson) for Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts), in Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill And The Indians Or, Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, 1976.

Raisin In The Sun, A (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Wasn't No Rich White Woman We’ve just met Claudia McNeil, in the role she played on Broadway, as mother Lena, conferring with her daughter-in-law Ruth (Ruby Dee), returning to her Chicago apartment, discussing her grandson, her son, and the $10,000 insurance check she’s expecting following her husband’s death, in A Raisin In The Sun, 1961.

Raisin In The Sun, A (1961) -- (Movie Clip) That Check Coming Today? Opening, Daniel Petrie directing from Lorraine Hansberry’s screenplay based on her New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best-Play winner, Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee as Walter and Ruth, in their Broadway roles, Stephen Perry their son Travis, in A Raisin In The Sun, 1961, also starring Claudia McNeil and Diana Sands.

Raisin In The Sun, A (1961) -- (Movie Clip) That Was My Biggest Mistake Having committed to invest in a liquor store, frustrated Chicago chauffeur Walter (Sidney Poitier) returns home, interested only in the insurance check his mother (Claudia McNeil) just received for his father’s death, unaware that his wife (Ruby Dee) is pregnant, and has visited an abortionist, in A Raisin In The Sun, 1961.

Raisin In The Sun, A (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Get Married And Shut Up! Scrapping with neighbors over the bathroom, Diana Sands is introduced as Beneatha, sister of frustrated Walter (Sidney Poitier), who’s been fighting with his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) about the insurance check their mother is about to receive after their father’s death, in playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, 1961.

Edge Of The City (1957) -- (Movie Clip) The Lower Forms Axel (John Cassavetes), himself of iffy background, still on his first day working the New York docks, joins Tyler (Sidney Poitier), whom he finds much more welcoming than crooked Charlie (not seen), who got him the job, early in Martin Ritt's Edge Of The City, 1957.

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Notes

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1988

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