Herbert Brodkin was an American producer and director of film and television.
22 Facts About Herbert Brodkin
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Herbert Brodkin was the founder and president of Plautus Productions and the co-founder of Titus Productions with Robert Berger in 1965.
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Herbert Brodkin was born to a Jewish family on November 9,1912, in New York City, the youngest of six children born to parents Adolph and Rose Herbert Brodkin.
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Herbert Brodkin's father immigrated from Russia in 1887 and his mother in 1894.
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Herbert Brodkin had two older brothers; Nathanal and Milton, and three older sisters; Gertrude, Ethel, and Beatrice.
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Herbert Brodkin started his career as a scenic designer of the 1947 Broadway drama O'Daniel.
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Herbert Brodkin was the scenic designer of many other plays.
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Herbert Brodkin began his career in television in 1950 as a set designer at CBS.
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Herbert Brodkin achieved recognition a few years later and became a producer for many anthology programs of the 1950s including The Elgin Hour, The Alcoa Hour, Goodyear Television Playhouse, and Studio One.
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Marshall and Robert Reed as a father-and-son defense attorney team who, under the production of Herbert Brodkin, dealt with subjects such as euthanasia and blacklisting, subjects which, at the time, were very touchy for television.
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Herbert Brodkin became famous for his use of close-ups and fast cuts in the series.
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In 1959, Herbert Brodkin founded and became the president of Plautus Productions.
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Herbert Brodkin was responsible for series such as Brenner, The Defenders, The Nurses, Espionage, For the People, and Coronet Blue.
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Titus Productions served as the production company for many of the TV shows and films that Herbert Brodkin produced including the miniseries Holocaust in 1978 and Doubletake in 1985, and the movies Skokie and Mandela.
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Herbert Brodkin was acquired by the Taft Entertainment Company in 1981.
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Herbert Brodkin died on October 29,1990, in New York City, New York at the Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Herbert Brodkin died of an aneurysm at the age of 77.
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Herbert Brodkin was eleven days shy of his 78th birthday.
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Herbert Brodkin was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Brodkin.
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Herbert Brodkin was survived by his two daughters; Lucinda D and Brigit A Brodkin.
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Herbert Brodkin was survived by two older sisters; Pat Cutler, and Beatrice Forrest.
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Herbert Brodkin was posthumously inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1999.