- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 49 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Actor, stage director, and theater chief executive John Beasley was born on June 26, 1943 in North Omaha, Nebraska. Beasley attended the University of Omaha from 1964 to 1968, then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After starting in the mailroom of WFIL-TV, he became assistant producer for a local children's program, The World Around Us. A small part in Germantown Theatre's production of As You Like It initiated Beasley's passion for acting. He was cast in August Wilson's early Goodman Theatre productions in Chicago while working as a Union Pacific Railroad clerk. Deciding to pursue acting full-time, Beasley appeared alongside Oprah Winfrey in the short lived television series Brewster Place, and his career took off from there. Beasley's other film and television credits include The Apostle, Rudy, The General's Daughter and Everwood. In his hometown of Omaha, Beasley taught and directed at The John Beasley Workshop, which he founded at Center Stage.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with John Beasley
- John Beasley
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208939
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with John Beasley.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
024903
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Omaha, Nebraska 2007 October 8.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Actor Theater Chief Executive Stage Director.
- Added Author
Beasley, John, 1943- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.