American Masters - Definition

American Masters is a PBS television show which does biographies on what it judges are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States.

• Actor's Studio
• Stella Adler
• Algonquin Round Table
• Louis Armstrong
• Richard Avedon
• George Balanchine
• James Baldwin
• Lucille Ball
• Leonard Bernstein
• James Brown
• John Cage
• Alexander Calder
• Robert Capa
• Truman Capote
• John Cassavetes
• Lon Chaney
• Charlie Chaplin
• Ray Charles
• Harold Clurman
• Aaron Copland
• George Cukor
• Merce Cunningham
• Edward Curtis
• Plácido Domingo
• Thomas Eakins
• Clint Eastwood
• Albert Einstein
• Duke Ellington
• Ralph Ellison
• Ella Fitzgerald
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Milos Forman
• Aretha Franklin
• Buckminster Fuller
• Judy Garland
• Frank Gehry
• George Gershwin
• Allen Ginsberg
• Lillian Gish
• Sam Goldwyn
• Benny Goodman
• Martha Graham
• D.W. Griffith
• Group Theatre
• Dashiell Hammett
• John Hammond
• Helen Hayes
• Lillian Hellman
• Don Hewitt
• Al Hirschfeld
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Billie Holiday
• Lena Horne
• Jasper Johns
• Philip Johnson
• Quincy Jones
• Juilliard School
• Danny Kaye
• Elia Kazan
• Buster Keaton
• Gene Kelly
• Andre Kertesz
• James Levine
• Harold Lloyd
• Murray Louis
• George Lucas
• Henry Luce
• Norman Mailer
• Bob Marley
• Elaine May
• Sanford Meisner
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Arthur Miller
• Joni Mitchell
• Robert Motherwell
• Edward Murrow
• Negro Ensemble Company
• Willie Nelson
• Mike Nichols
• Alwin Nikolais
• Isamu Noguchi
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• Eugene O'Neill
• Jack Paar
• Charlie Parker
• Gregory Peck
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Sidney Poitier
• Cole Porter
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Man Ray
• Lou Reed
• Frederic Remington
• Diego Rivera
• Paul Robeson
• Norman Rockwell
• Richard Rodgers
• Will Rogers
• Arthur Rubinstein
• Mort Sahl
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• Waldo Salt
• Martin Scorsese
• David O. Selznick
• Maurice Sendak
• Rod Serling
• Neil Simon
• Paul Simon
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• W. Eugene Smith
• The Source
• Isaac Stern
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Preston Sturges
• William Styron
• Sun Records
• Paul Taylor
• Vaudeville
• Sarah Vaughan
• Gore Vidal
• Andy Warhol
• Alice Waters
• Muddy Waters
• Billy Wilder
• Hank Williams
• Tennessee Williams
• William Wyler

External link

• PBS: American Masters (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/)