Jac Venza
Personal Info
Know For
Production
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-12-23 (98 years old)
Deathday
2024-05-28
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also known As
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Jac Venza
Biography
Jac Venza was a public television producer who was directly responsible for most of the theatre and music programs that have been seen on PBS since its creation in 1970. From the early 1960s until his retirement in 2005, Venza brought such programs as NET Playhouse, Live from Lincoln Center, American Playhouse, American Masters, and Great Performances to millions of viewers. He won a Personal Peabody Award in 1998. He began his career on CBS in the 1950s, where he began to notice the scarcity of programming devoted to the fine arts on television. It was his dream to bring more of it to the home screen on a regular basis, but he did not recei...
Production
1971
as Producer
1975
as Executive Producer
1978
as Producer
1999
as Executive Producer
2002
as Executive Producer
1958
as Production Design
1974
as Executive Producer
1972
as Executive Producer
1974
as Executive Producer
1983
as Executive Producer
2002
as Executive Producer
1989
as Executive Producer
1974
as Executive Producer
1991
as Co-Producer
1981
as Executive Producer
1971
as Executive Producer
1970
as Executive Producer
1974
as Executive Producer
1992
as Executive Producer
1961
as Production Design
1995
as Executive Producer
1979
as Executive Producer
1971
as Executive Producer
1979
as Executive Producer
1979
as Executive Producer
1982
as Associate Producer
1971
as Executive Producer
1979
as Executive Producer
1978
as Executive Producer
1966
as Producer
1978
as Executive Producer
1966
as Executive Producer
1999
as Executive Producer
1982
as Executive Producer
1972
as Producer
1966
as Producer
1966
as Executive Producer
1966
as Producer
1982
as Executive Producer
1982
as Executive Producer
1982
as Executive Producer
1975
as Executive Producer
1976
as Executive Producer
2002
as Executive Producer
1975
as Producer
1987
as Executive Producer
1994
as Executive Producer
1974
as Executive Producer
1969
as Executive Producer
1999
as Executive Producer
1985
as Executive Producer
1987
as Executive Producer
1988
as Executive Producer
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