American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States and adopted "artists" who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture.
Anne Jackson, Bobby Short, David Thomson, Don Hewitt, Eli Wallach, Harry Belafonte, Jack Lemmon, Joanne Woodward, Lee Grant, Mark Rydell, Martin Scorsese, Michael Feinstein, Mike Dann, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Bogdanovich, Quincy Jones, Richard Schickel, Tony Bennett, Yoko Ono
Biography, Documentary, History, Music, Romance
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