Studs Terkel
Actor · Book · Producer
Born May 16, 1912 · New York, New York, U.S
Active 1961–2008 · Awards: Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech, George Polk Award, Thomas Merton Award, Peabody Awards, Paul Robeson Award
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for…
Filmography
The Civil War (1990) — Benjamin Butler / VariousEight Men Out (1988) — Hugh FullertonUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) — Other Voices (voice)Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997)The Dollmaker (1984) — Taxi DriverA Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984) — NarratorWorking (1982) — BookChicago Blues (1972)Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... (2015)To Write and Keep Kind (1992) — Poetry ReaderAssignment AmericaChicago: First Impressions of a Great American City (1961) — Producer