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Herbert Brodkin (November 9, 1912 – October 29, 1990) [citation needed] was an American producer and director of film and television. Brodkin was best known as the producer of the television shows Playhouse 90, The Defenders, [ 1 ] the miniseries Holocaust and the short-lived series Coronet Blue. Brodkin was also the founder and president of ...
Nazism, atomic war, racism, euthanasia, and blacklisting. Viewers didn’t see television shows on topics deemed provocative until producer Brodkin took the plunge on “Playhouse 90” and “The Defenders.” Among the Emmy Award winner’s many socially relevant TV specials were “Holocaust” in 1978 and “Mandela” in 1987.
Sep 1, 2009 · Herbert Brodkin managed to produce some of the most thought-provoking and gripping programs in television history. Among them: Studio One, Motorola Hour, Alcoa Theater, Playhouse 90, The Defenders, Shane, The Nurses, Coronet Blue, Espionage; plus original TV movies and mini-series including The People Next Door, Pueblo, The Missiles of October, Holocaust, Skokie, Sakharov, and Mandela.
Oct 29, 1990 · Death. Brodkin died on October 29, 1990, in New York City, New York at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He died of an aneurysm at the age of 77. He was eleven days shy of his 78th birthday. He was preceded in death by his wife Patricia Brodkin. He was survived by his two daughters; Lucinda D. and Brigit A. Brodkin.
Nov 28, 2017 · Born in the Bronx to Russian Jewish immigrants, Brodkin was the youngest of six kids raised in Brooklyn, and later, Amityville, Long Island. With his dad busy working as a manufacturer of ladies’ hats, and his mom consumed with raising a family, young Herb was a loner, left largely in the care of a doting Polish nanny.
Nov 12, 1990 · DIED. Herbert Brodkin, 77, innovative television producer who examined such subjects as Nazism (Holocaust and Skokie), euthanasia, blacklisting and abortion (episodes of The Defenders); in New York...
Nov 1, 1990 · Herbert Brodkin, the craggy-faced, fiercely independent producer who opted to remain in New York when most of the television industry moved West and who was responsible for some of the finest ...
