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Film Credits

Directed by
Ric Burns

Written by
Arthur Gelb & Barbara Gelb and Ric Burns

Edited by
Li-Shin Yu

Produced by
Marilyn Ness and Steve Rivo with Robin Espinola and Mary Recine

Executive Producers
Ric Burns and Donald Rosenfeld

Narrated by
Christopher Plummer

Actors and Voices
Al Pacino
Zoe Caldwell
Christopher Plummer
Robert Sean Leonard
Callie Thorne
Vanessa Redgrave
Liam Neeson
Natasha Richardson
Jason Robards

Senior Editorial Consultant and Creative Advisor
Judy Crichton

Cinematography
Buddy Squires
Peter Nelson
Allen Moore

Original Music Composed And Arranged by
Brian Keane

Senior Creative Advisors
Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb

Advisory Board
Judith Barlow
Stephen Black
Harold Bloom
Jackson Bryer
Martin Meisel
Lloyd Richards
Edward Shaughnessy
Patricia Willis

Senior Producer
Kate Roth Knull

Coordinating Producer
Amy Brown

Associate Producers
Lily Thorne
Heather Parks
Pamela Lynn Fielder

Researchers
Kristen Vaurio
Meghann McCrory

Production Coordinator
Josh Mueller

Production Office Coordinators
Marin Tockman
Daryl Gammons

Sound Recording
John Zecca
Mark Mandler
John Haptas
Daniel McIntosh
Juan Rodriguez
Mark Roy
George Shaftnacker

Additional Cinematography
Greg Andracke
Don Lenzer
Stephen McCarthy

Assistant Camera
David A. Ford
Anthony Savini
Ben Bloodwell
Patrick Kelly
Paul Marbury
Chris Paul
Robert Sands
Jill Tufts

Post Production Coordinator
Sarah Kaylor

Stills Animation Supervisor
Samara Smith

Assistant Editor
Jacob Steingroot

Post Production Assistant
Paulo Padilha

Voiceover Recording
Lou Verrico
Full House Productions

Sound Editors
Marlena Grzaslewicz
Mariusz Glabinski
Ira Spiegel

Assistant Sound Editor
Chad Birmingham

Re-Recording Mixer
Dominic Tavella
Sound One Corporation

Music Editor
Keith Chirgwin

Colorist
Bill Stokes, duArt Film Labs

On-line Editor
John Rehberger, duArt Video

Legal Services
Robert N. Gold

Fiscal Sponsor
City Lore

Production Accounting
Linda Patterson Sharpley
Kelley A. Trotter

Production Assistants
Caroline Raymond
Una Lamarche
Abigail Borden
Peter Carlson-Bancroft
Evan Berkow
Jaimie Mayer
Francesca Mirabella-Davis

Interns
Margot Ahlquist
Rheanna Bates
Margaret Bryer
Lisa Cohen
Maria Cole
Gillon Crichton
Christopher Danzig
Jonathan Davis
Emma Dutton
Kirsten Johnson
Chelsea Hernandez
Chelsea Hoffman
Tracie Hunte
Luke Meyer
Evan Neel
Noelle Nicholson
Julia Rocci
Sydney Spector
Pia Swahney

This program would not have been possible without the extraordinary archival resources and generous cooperation of:

The Beinecke Rare Book And Manuscript Library, Yale University
The Eugene O'Neill Foundation, Tao House
The Sheaffer-O'Neill Collection, Connecticut College
The Hammerman Collection And eoneill.com
The Monte Cristo Cottage, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
and the collections of Arthur and Barbara Gelb

Additional archival stills provided by:
© Beata Bergström
Billy Rose Theatre Collection, the New York Public Library
Horace Bristol
Corbis
Jerry Dantzic, © Jerry Dantzic Archives
Gaylord Hospital
Getty Images
George Eastman House
E.O. Hoppe / Getty Images
George Karger, Used with Permission
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
The University of Texas at Austin
Henry W. & Albert A. Berg Collection,
The New York Public Library
Library Of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
Carl Van Vechten Collection
Photofest
Joan Marcus
Fania Marinoff, courtesy of the Van Vechten Trust
Saint Mary's College Archives Collection
George Meredith
Nickolas Muray, © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives
Museum of the City of New York
© Arnold Newman
NYC Municipal Archives
The New York Times
Oakland Tribune
Edward Steichen; Courtesy Joanna T. Steichen/
Carousel Research
TimeLife Pictures / Getty Images
Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of the Van Vechten Trust
The Washington Post

Additional Archival Motion Pictures provided by
Broadway Theatre Archive
Corbis Motion
Getty Images
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
The University Of Texas At Austin
Library Of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting And Recorded Sound Division
Mystic Seaport Film And Video Archives
Nickolas Muray, © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives
Northeast Historic Film, Hiram Percy Maxim Collection
Northeast Historic Film, Albert Conley Collection
University Of South Carolina Newsfilm Archive
The WPA Film Library

Excerpts From Anna Christie, A Long Day's Journey Into Night
And The Iceman Cometh read on camera by permission of
Yale University, PAC Holding And the Trust of Shane O'Neill.

Special thanks to:
Peter Allan
Orlando Bagwell
Robert Brustein
Zoe Caldwell
Margaret Drain
Robert Falls
Judy Crichton
John Guare
Josh Hamilton
Harley Hammerman
Al Hirschfeld
Michael Kantor
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld
Tony Kushner
Bonnie Lafave
Samuel Liff
Sidney Lumet
Ted Mann
Karen Miles
Susan Mottau
Lois Erickson McDonald
Peter McGhee
Stephen Kennedy Murphy
Al Pacino
Sally Thomas Pavetti
Christopher Plummer
Lloyd Richards
Lois Robards
Jason Robards
Diane Schinnerer
Edward Shaughnessy
Amy Sullivan
Janet Shaughnessy
Rosalind P. Walter
Robert Whitehead
Patricia Willis
Steve Zeitlin
Kaye Albertoni
Diana Burhnam
Simon Burns
Adam Burns
Jane Caldwell
Brian Dennehy
Laurie Deredita
Bob Forester
Glenn Fuller
Myron McCormick
Joe Monge
Nathaniel Prinzi
Robert Redford
Edward Said
Eli Wallach
Darice Wirth
Julie Wurts
Alexis Zoullas

Special thanks as well to:
The American Irish Historical Society
American Repertory Theatre
Cape Cod National Seashore
Cherry Lane Theatre
Circle in the Square Theatre
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
Forest Hills Cemetery
Irish Repertory Theatre
National Arts Club
Signature Theatre
Taped In Part At New 42nd Street Studios
The New-York Historical Society
Plymouth Theatre
Provincetown Playhouse Through Playwrights Theater
Of NYU Steinhardt School Of Education
Union Square Theatre