American film historian who was the Corwin-Fuller professor of film studies at Wesleyan University and the founder and curator of the university's cinematic archives.

KNOWN FOR

American Experience
2005
Omnibus
2000
American Masters
2020
Biography
1999
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
American Cinema
1995
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Frank Capra: Mr. America
2023

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
29
Producing
1
2025
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy
as Self
2023
Frank Capra: Mr. America
as Self - Film Historian and Founder of the Frank Capra Archive
2021
Dean Martin: King of Cool
as Self
2020
American Masters
as Self
2019
An American Named Kazan
as Self
2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
as Self
2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self
2012
Casting By
as Self
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
as Self
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self
2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self
2008
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
as Self
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self
2006
Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'
as Self
2006
Wanderlust
as Herself
2006
The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic Comedy
as Self
2006
Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self
2006
Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
as Self
2005
American Experience
as Self
2004
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Self
2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Self
2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
as Self
2001
A Better Way to Die
as Sexton's Wife
2001
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
as Self
2000
On Cukor
as Self
2000
Omnibus
1999
Biography
as Self - Film Historian
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
1995
American Cinema
as Self