Perry Sidney Wolff, a pioneer in the development of the
television documentary form, was born in Chicago in 1921.
Perry Wolff won numerous Emmy and Peabody Awards during a long career as an
executive producer for “CBS Reports” and other news programs, but after he
retired from CBS news, he made a series of art films for public broadcasting,
including Images of Jesus, which won the Religious Broadcast of the year award,
Michelangelo Restored, The Impressionists, van Gogh, Picasso, and An Essay on
Matisse, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1996.
In this video Perry Wolff discusses "A Tour of the
White House" with Jackie Kennedy.
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