Performing Arts in Credo: Television

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
At a time when variety shows were disappearing, her own Carol Burnett Show (1967-79) with its regular group of players performing comedy sketches and musical numbers, proved highly successful and won five Emmy Awards.

Singer and actress, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Her singing was sweet, smooth, and intimate, and because she looked like everyone’s ideal ‘girl next door’, she was soon making light romantic comedies (39 films in all).

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
His television series The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) won him Emmy awards in 1962, 1964 and 1965. His subsequent films include Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US television presenter and businessman. Originally a singer, he appeared on The CBS Morning Show in 1956, then hosted game shows like Keep Talking for ABC. He hosted the Merv Griffin Show (1965–86), then developed the successful game shows Jeopardy in the 1960s and Wheel of Fortune in the 1970s.

Puppeteer, television programme and film-maker. The uplifting entertainment worlds Henson created (Sesame Street, The Muppets) contrast with the feel-good empires of Walt Disney.

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
U.S. television and film actress. She studied dance and appeared in commercials and in minor roles on television before costarring in the hit Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66; two Emmy Awards). She achieved even greater success as the star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77; four Emmy Awards), which became the most popular situation comedy of the 1970s.

US actor. His gift for both Gothic grandiosity and judicious self-parody made him a popular star of horror films.

Multi-award winning American talk-show host, producer, and actress. Producer and host of The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-present), Winfrey has also acted in films such as The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (1998).

Television comedienne and film actress, born in Celaron, New York, USA. She appeared in many later films and radio shows, but only gained real success in 1951 when she teamed up with her Cuban-born, bandleader husband, Desi Arnaz, to play the zany middle-class couple, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in television’s prototypical situation comedy I Love Lucy.

Comedian, born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. He made occasional appearances on television in the early 1950s before settling into The Jack Benny Show (1955–65), where to his famous radio techniques - the pregnant pause and the perfectly timed ‘Well!’ - he added the slow take and the piqued stare.

Television talk show host, born in Corning, Iowa, USA.

Comedian, writer, and television producer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

British-born US comedian. His earliest success was on Broadway and as a radio star in the 1930s. Hope entertained the troops in the field during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was a perennial star on radio and television (from 1950) in his own comedy series and specials.

Comedy team, all born in New York City, New York, USA. The three most prominent were Chico (b. Leonard) (1886–1961); Harpo (b. Adolph, but known as Arthur) (1888–1964); and Groucho (b. Julius Henry) (1890–1977).