Exclusive: Joan Rivers, the legendary comedian, is getting the documentary treatment.
Called “quite possible the most intuitively funny woman alive” by the New York Times television critic Jack Gould, Passion Pictures and The Mediapro Studio U.S. and Canada are working up a new feature documentary about Rivers.
It comes more than ten years after her death and will feature unprecedented access to Rivers’ own archives including newly unearthed home videos and hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings and audio tapes as well as interviews with her family, including her daughter Melissa, and her closest confidantes.
Rivers, who came up in the Greenwich Village clubs alongside the likes of George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Woody Allen, was an uncompromising woman who succeeded in the male-dominated world of standup.
She became well known thanks to appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson but fell out with the iconic...
Called “quite possible the most intuitively funny woman alive” by the New York Times television critic Jack Gould, Passion Pictures and The Mediapro Studio U.S. and Canada are working up a new feature documentary about Rivers.
It comes more than ten years after her death and will feature unprecedented access to Rivers’ own archives including newly unearthed home videos and hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings and audio tapes as well as interviews with her family, including her daughter Melissa, and her closest confidantes.
Rivers, who came up in the Greenwich Village clubs alongside the likes of George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Woody Allen, was an uncompromising woman who succeeded in the male-dominated world of standup.
She became well known thanks to appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson but fell out with the iconic...
- 7/16/2025
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A new three-part series, Lucan, is coming to BBC Two and iPlayer, detailing one man’s quest to solve the decades-long mystery surrounding the disappearance of Lord Lucan. In 1974, Sandra Rivett, a children’s nanny, was found murdered in a Belgravia townhouse, with the chief suspect being Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, who […]
BBC Two to Air Lucan Documentary Exploring Decades-Long Manhunt...
BBC Two to Air Lucan Documentary Exploring Decades-Long Manhunt...
- 10/4/2024
- by Noah Masire
- MemorableTV
By Harris Lentz, III
Character actor John Davis Chandler made his film debut as the sniveling psychotic gangster in the title role of 1961’s Mad Dog Coll. Over the next three decades he appeared in numerous films and television productions, often typecast as weasely villains in western and crime productions. He was the crazed Acid in the 1968 exploitation film The Hooked Generation, a shark poacher in Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976), and a vicious pot farmer in Whiskey Mountain(1977).
Chandler was born in Hinton, West Virginia, on January 28, 1937. He appeared frequently in films and television from the early 1960s. His film credits include Sam Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country (1962) as Jimmy Hammond, Major Dundee (1965), the werewolf tele-film Moon of the Wolf (1972) with Bradford Dillman and David Janssen, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Capone (1974) as gangster Hymie Weiss, The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) with Clint Eastwood, Chesty Anderson, Usn (1976), the horror...
Character actor John Davis Chandler made his film debut as the sniveling psychotic gangster in the title role of 1961’s Mad Dog Coll. Over the next three decades he appeared in numerous films and television productions, often typecast as weasely villains in western and crime productions. He was the crazed Acid in the 1968 exploitation film The Hooked Generation, a shark poacher in Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976), and a vicious pot farmer in Whiskey Mountain(1977).
Chandler was born in Hinton, West Virginia, on January 28, 1937. He appeared frequently in films and television from the early 1960s. His film credits include Sam Peckinpah’s Ride the High Country (1962) as Jimmy Hammond, Major Dundee (1965), the werewolf tele-film Moon of the Wolf (1972) with Bradford Dillman and David Janssen, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Capone (1974) as gangster Hymie Weiss, The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) with Clint Eastwood, Chesty Anderson, Usn (1976), the horror...
- 5/20/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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