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Jon Wilkman, a documentarian who received two Emmy nominations for writing and producing Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, an acclaimed seven-hour miniseries for TCM in 2010, has died. He was 80.
Wilkman died Nov. 30 of kidney cancer at his Beachwood Canyon home in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson announced.
A founding member and three-term president of the International Documentary Association, Wilkman also wrote and produced a Jane Pauley-hosted 1991 NBC special that celebrated the 100th episode of L.A. Law and Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles, a 2008 documentary narrated by Edward James Olmos.
Moguls & Movie Stars, narrated by Christopher Plummer, examined the industry from the invention of film to the birth of the New Hollywood movement in the early 1970s.
Born in Los Angeles, Wilkman, the son of an architect, graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1964.
He began his career...
Jon Wilkman, a documentarian who received two Emmy nominations for writing and producing Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, an acclaimed seven-hour miniseries for TCM in 2010, has died. He was 80.
Wilkman died Nov. 30 of kidney cancer at his Beachwood Canyon home in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson announced.
A founding member and three-term president of the International Documentary Association, Wilkman also wrote and produced a Jane Pauley-hosted 1991 NBC special that celebrated the 100th episode of L.A. Law and Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles, a 2008 documentary narrated by Edward James Olmos.
Moguls & Movie Stars, narrated by Christopher Plummer, examined the industry from the invention of film to the birth of the New Hollywood movement in the early 1970s.
Born in Los Angeles, Wilkman, the son of an architect, graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1964.
He began his career...
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