Don Hewitt Biography (1922-)

Born December 14, 1922, in New York, NY; son of Ely S. (in advertising sales)and Frieda (maiden name, Pike) Hewitt; married Mary Weaver (deceased); married Frankie Lea Teague Childers (a theatrical producer), June 8, 1963 (divorced, 1974); married Marilyn Berger (a television news correspondent), April 14,1979; children: (first marriage) Jeffrey, Steven; (second marriage) Jilian (stepdaughter), Lisa. Addresses: Office: 60 Minutes, CBS News, 524 West57th St., New York, NY 10019-2925.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Producer
Birth Details: December 14, 1922; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Work
Series
Associate director, CBS TV News (also known as Douglas Edwardswith the News and CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite), CBS, 1948-1950
Producer and director, CBS TV News (also known as Douglas Edwards with the News and CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite), CBS,1950-1964
Director, See It Now, 1951
Director, Presidential Timber, 1952
Executive producer, CBS TV News with Walter Cronkite, CBS, 1960-1965
Creator and executive producer, 60 Minutes, CBS, 1968-
Executive producer, 60 Minutes More, CBS, 1997
Also producer and director of news analysis program Eyewitness to History.
Specials
Executive producer, 60 Minutes: The Entertainers, CBS, 1991
Executive producer, One for the Road with Charles Kuralt and Morley Safer, CBS, 1994
Producer of many CBS news specials covering special events, such as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953, the coronation of Pope John XXIII, 1958, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963; producer of documentaries for CBS, including Town Meeting of the World, Victory inEurope: 20 Years After, and CBS Reports: Hunger in America.
Television Appearances
Series
60 Minutes More, CBS, 1997

Specials
Unauthorized Biography: Richard M. Nixon, syndicated, 1989
William S. Paley: Tribute to a Broadcasting Giant, CBS, 1990
Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter, PBS, 1990
60 Minutes ... 25 Years, CBS, 1993
Narrator, Jack, 1993
"When America Trembled--Murrow/McCarthy," CBS Reports, CBS, 1994
Panelist, Meet the Media: What Is News? What Is Tabloid? (also known as CNBC Meet the Media: What Is News? What Is Tabloid?), CNBC, 1995
Naked News, Arts and Entertainment, 1995
60 Minutes at 30, CBS, 1998
CBS: The First 50 Years, CBS, 1998
"Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes," American Masters, PBS, 1998
Interviewee, Mike Wallace: TV's Grand Inquisitor, Arts and Entertainment, 1998
Interviewee, William S. Paley: The Eye of CBS, Arts and Entertainment, 2000
Interviewee, Great Conventions: 1948 with Roger Mudd, History Channel, 2000
Breaking the News (documentary), CBS, 2001
Awards Presentations
The Television Academy Hall of Fame, Fox, 1990
Presenter, The 9th Annual Television Academy Hall of Fame, 1993
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) 13th Annual Hall of Fame (also known as Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of FameAwards), Showtime, 1998
WRITINGS
Books
Minute by Minute, Random House (New York City), 1985
Television Specials
Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years of 60 Minutes in Television, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Communications Daily, October 10, 1997, p. 7
Insight on the News, June 8, 1998, p. 8
People Weekly, April 24, 1995, p. 85
Quill, November, 1997, p. 9
Rolling Stone, May 30, 1991, p. 47
Television Digest, October 13, 1997, p. 41
Variety, December 21, 1992, pp. 1, 6
Vital Speeches, November 1, 1997, p. 48

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