The Films of David O

A PINEWOOD DIALOGUE with bill cosby

Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

A conversation with Bill Cosby and Herbert S. Schlosser,

moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz

Bill Cosby selected filmography (TV series and feature films)

1965-68 I Spy [NBC] TV series

1969-71 The Bill Cosby Show [NBC] TV series

1972-79 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids [CBS] TV series

1972 Hickey and Boggs [United Artists] feature film

1972 The New Bill Cosby Show [CBS] TV series

1971-73 The Electric Company [Children’s Television Workshop] TV series

1973 Uptown Saturday Night [Warner Bros.] feature film

1975 Let’s Do It Again [Warner Bros.] feature film

1976 Mother, Jugs, & Speed [20th Century Fox] feature film

1977 Cos [ABC] TV series

1977 A Piece of Action [Warner Bros.] feature film

1978 California Suite [Columbia] feature film

1981 The Devil and Max Devlin [Disney] feature film

1984-92 The Cosby Show [NBC] TV series

1987-93 A Different World [NBC] TV series

1987 Leonard Part 6 [Columbia] feature film

1990 Ghost Dad [Universal] feature film

1994-95 The Cosby Mysteries [NBC] TV series

1995 Jack [Disney] feature film

1996-2000 Cosby [CBS] TV series

2000-07 Little Bill [Nickelodeon] TV series

2004 Fat Albert [Fox] feature film

Herbert S. Schlosser

Herbert Schlosser spent 30 years at NBC and RCA in a career that spanned many areas of broadcasting and entertainment in both business and programming. He was President and CEO of the National Broadcasting Company and, after that, Executive Vice President of RCA Corporation in charge of its entertainment group of activities other than NBC.

He played a key role in the acquisition or development of the first major network series and specials to feature African-Americans in starring roles, including I Spy, Julia, The Flip Wilson Show, and Sanford and Son.

In 1963, he negotiated the first agreement ever made for the production of made-for-television motion pictures (between NBC and Universal Pictures). He then became head of the network’s program department, in Los Angeles from 1966 to 1972. He was also involved in the development of many of NBC’s made-for-television motion pictures broadcast under the title of World Premiere. NBC was the first network to broadcast made-for-television movies.

In 1973, he became President of the NBC Television Network, a division of the National Broadcasting Company. In 1974, he became President of the company. When he was President of the company he was responsible for putting Saturday Night Live on the air. He played the crucial role in deciding that a new live entertainment program emanating from the famous Studio 8H, in the RCA building in New York City, would go on the NBC Television Network in 1975. He insisted that it be “live”. Lorne Michaels was hired to be Executive Producer. He created the show. The program went on the air on October 11, 1975. It is still on the air 36 years later.

Mr. Schlosser commissioned the award winning mini-series, Holocaust, produced by Herbert Brodkin. When Holocaust was broadcast in West Germany, it was watched by well over half the population of the country. The mini-series is credited as having had an enormous impact on viewers and with helping German citizens come to terms with the Holocaust. During his Presidency, NBC broadcast two of the ten highest rated mini-series in the history of network broadcasting, Holocaust and Jesus of Nazareth.

Together with Herbert Granath of Capital Cities/ABC and Raymond Joslin of the Hearst Corporation, he co-founded the Arts & Entertainment Network, the cable program service, in which ABC, Hearst and NBC are now partners.

Since 1986, he has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the Moving Image.

The Pinewood Dialogues, an ongoing series of discussions with creative figures in film, television, and digital media, are made possible with generous support from the Pannonia Foundation. A growing selection of Pinewood Dialogues are available for downloading or streaming at Moving Image Source (movingimagesource.us), or by subscription on iTunes.

Museum of the Moving Image is grateful for the generous support of numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals. The Museum is housed in a building owned by the City of New York and receives significant support from the following public agencies: the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Economic Development Corporation; New York State Council on the Arts; Institute of Museum and Library Services; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation).