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Oct 15, 2010 · David Susskind was an egotist, a womanizer, an intellectual, a charmer, a producer of high-minded television dramas and a talk-show pioneer. Now he is a giant roar from the past.
Dec 6, 2011 · David Susskind was the first TV producer to become a TV star. His freewheeling discussion program Open End, later known as The David Susskind Show, brought the turbulent issues of the 1960s and provocative social trends of the 1970s into the nation's living rooms at a time when television was tame.
David Susskind Biography, Life, Interesting Facts Early life. David Susskind was born in New York City, December 19, 1920, to Benjamin and Frances (Lear) Susskind. Before David reached one year of age, his family moved to Brookline, Mass.
David Susskind was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a pioneer TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond the scope of others of the day.
The drama was canceled by CBS after only one season, due also in large part with CBS programming head James Aubrey's discomfort with the socially conscious subject matter, as well as Aubrey's conflicts with Scott and Susskind over the direction of the series. [2] David Susskind appears as himself in one episode, hosting a television discussion.
David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. [1] His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond the scope of others of the day.
Professor Susskind received his PhD from Cornell University in 1965 and has taught at Stanford since 1979. In 1997, Susskind was awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prize for his "pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking."
