Series · Documentary
American Masters (1986)Season 1
★ 7.0 · 25 votes41 seasons · 316 episodesDocumentary1986
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
- Creator
- Susan Lacy
- Writers
- John Scheinfeld, Marilyn H. Mellowes, Phil Grabsky
- Network
- PBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- June 23, 1986
- Status
- Returning
- Next episode
- S40E7 · November 24, 2026
Cast
Hillary ClintonSelf
Mike NicholsSelf
Gloria SteinemSelf
Steve MartinSelf - Interviewee
Scarlett JohanssonSelf
Goran VišnjićRobert Capa (voice)
Patsy ClineSelf (archive footage)
Maya AngelouSelf
Sidney LumetSelf
Oprah WinfreySelf
CommonSelf
Bill ClintonSelf
Jane AlexanderNarrator- Graeme MalcomJohn Muir (voice)
Denis O'HareEdgar Allan Poe
Kathleen TurnerNarrator (voice)
Peter FalkSelf
Billie Jean KingSelf- Peaches BartkowiczSelf
- Rosie CasalsSelf
Episodes
0/12 watched- Episode 1: Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'1 h 30 min · Jun 23, 1986
- Episode 2: Philip Johnson, Self Portrait1 h 30 min · Jun 30, 1986
- Episode 3: Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory1 h 30 min · Jul 7, 1986
- Episode 4: The Unknown Chaplin (1)1 h 30 min · Jul 14, 1986
- Episode 5: The Unknown Chaplin (2)1 h 30 min · Jul 21, 1986
- Episode 6: The Unknown Chaplin (3)1 h 30 min · Jul 28, 1986
- Episode 7: Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day1 h 30 min · Aug 4, 1986
- Episode 8: James Levine: A Life in Music1 h 30 min · Aug 11, 1986
- Episode 9: Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait1 h 30 min · Aug 18, 1986
- Episode 10: Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait1 h 30 min · Aug 25, 1986
- Episode 11: Georgia O'Keeffe1 h 30 min · Sep 1, 1986
- Episode 12: Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts1 h 30 min · Sep 8, 1986
