David L. Wolper, the award-winning television documentary producer best known for executive producing the blockbuster TV miniseries “Roots” and for orchestrating the spectacular opening and closing ...

David L. Wolper, the award-winning television documentary producer best known for the blockbuster TV miniseries “Roots” and for the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies he created for the 1984 ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Wolper Organization, the company behind the iconic Roots miniseries, is staying in business with Warner Bros. Television Group. The two companies have renewed their overall deal, ...

DAVID Wolper, a Hollywood impresario who produced an astonishing range of award-winning documentaries, films and television shows, and who helped establish the popular miniseries form with his ...

“Roots” producer David L. Wolper was memorialized Tuesday afternoon for a career that spanned nearly a half-century as a visionary and showman. The event was held at Warner Bros. — the studio Wolper ...

David L. Wolper, the groundbreaking producer who made television history with the miniseries “Roots” as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics, died Tuesday of congestive ...

Hollywood Reporter senior editor Alex Ben Block said Wolper was also instrumental in getting networks to air independent documentaries. When it came to film production and distribution, Wolper had a ...

David L. Wolper‘s long career in showbiz ranged from selling old movies and serials to program-hungry stations in the early days of television broadcasting to the heights of “Roots” and “The Thorn ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract David Wolper and his Los Angeles–based studio Wolper Productions occupied a crucial position on the cultural front of John F. Kennedy's New ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — David L. Wolper, whose landmark 1977 miniseries "Roots" engrossed the nation with its saga of an American family descended from an African slave, has died. He was 82.