18 Facts About Joanne Brough

Joanne Brough was an American television producer and executive.

Joanne Brough began her career in 1960 at KTLA, a Los Angeles television station, and went on to work for CBS Television from 1963 to 1978, rising through the ranks to become one of the first female network development executives.

Joanne Brough received two Nosotros Awards and a medal from the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation while producing the TV series Falcon Crest.

Joanne Brough received an award from the Dyslexia Association of Singapore for the Asian dramatic series Masters of the Sea, presented by the wife of the Prime Minister of Singapore.

Joanne Brough was born in Joplin, Missouri, to father James Franklin Walker, an entrepreneur, real estate developer, and photographer, and mother Marion Tindall Walker, a Presbyterian deacon later in life.

Joanne Brough first became familiar with Southern California through yearly family road trips to Santa Monica, CA, via old Route 66.

Joanne Brough worked as a literary agent at Film Artists International and as a sub-writer on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night under the writer Henry Slesar.

In 1963, Joanne went to work for the CBS Television Network and remained there until 1978.

Joanne Brough worked in all areas: comedy series, drama series, movies, and miniseries.

Joanne Brough went on to spend eight years as Vice President Creative Affairs at Lorimar, reporting directly to the president, Lee Rich.

Joanne Brough was closely involved in the development of many top prime-time soaps besides Dallas, such as Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, and Flamingo Road.

Joanne Brough supervised these programs, reading and giving notes for each draft of every script, and for every completed episode.

Joanne Brough viewed most dailies and attended all pilot casting sessions.

From 1992 to 1993, Joanne Brough executive produced Killer Rules, a murder mystery movie about the Italian Mafia in Rome, Italy, for Lee Rich Productions, Warner Brothers, and NBC.

Joanne Brough had served as a guest lecturer on television production at UCLA Extension in the 1980s.

Joanne Brough was married for thirty-seven years to Charles Brough, a social science researcher.

Joanne Brough had three children from her prior marriage to Arthur Chaves.

Joanne Brough had three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren.