Garrison Keillor
Also Known As: Gary Edward Keillor
Biography: Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history. From Wikipedia (US), the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anoka, Minnesota, USA
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A Prairie Home Companion
Overview: A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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The Main Stream
Overview: Humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes viewers on a journey down the Mississippi River, showcasing everything from areas with spectacularly beautiful scenery to ugly and dangerously polluted stretches bordered by industrial development.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-17
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The Haunted History of Halloween
Overview: The origins of Halloween are explored in this engrossing program on the subject. A ghoulish array of costumes, make up, and decoration descend on communities every year on October 31st, but few people are aware of how the celebration came to exist. Harry Smith attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery in THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN, which delves into the 3,000 years of hoopla that traditionally unfolds when October comes around. As the history is explained, so are various failed attempts to co-opt the festival by various religious groups; but the most compelling revelation is how little the festival has changed over the centuries. A marvelous way to gain a historical perspective on this entertaining holiday, Smith's program is almost as fun as carving a pumpkin, donning a spooky costume, and undertaking a little trick or treating!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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The Big One
Overview: The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-06
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A Prairie Home Companion 30th Broadcast Season Celebration
Overview: After 30 years of live radio broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion," the popular show comes to DVD for the first time, offering a rare inside look at one of radio´s most beloved shows. Taped before live audiences at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, MN , the DVD features the 30th anniversary broadcast with Keillor and cast performing their singular blend of folk, blues and gospel songs and topical comedy sketches. The broadcast includes appearances by special guests BR549, Philip Brunelle, Jearlyn Steele and Inga Swearingen, in addition to cast regulars Sue Scott, Tom Keith, Fred Newman and Tim Russell, and music by The Guy´s All-Star Shoe Band.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-09
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Redux Riding Hood
Overview: Years after failing to catch Little Red Riding Hood, the obsessed Wolf tries again.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Overview: Americas foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold. This free form, intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight goes behind the scenes of Americas most popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
Overview: Tom And Jerry are among the last animals living in Storybook Town, a fairy tale-inspired theme park "where dreams come true, if you believe."
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-04
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Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Overview: The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-27
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Afraid So
Overview: A film about fear and anxiety. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
Overview: Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-13
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The Congress
Overview: For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institution. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews with David Broder, Alistair Cooke, Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell and others, the award-winning film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of Congress and, in turn, our country.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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The Wright Stuff
Overview: On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple of tight circles, ending in a perfect landing. The flight took less than two minutes, but it left spectators awestruck. While the combined talents of Wilbur and Orville Wright had produced the first plane capable of controlled flight , their distrust of others had almost cost them the credit for their invention. Now, having proved to the public that they had mastered the sky, the reserved brothers from the small town of Dayton, Ohio, became world celebrities.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-12
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A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD!
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Genres: TV Movie Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Rabbit Ears - Johnny Appleseed
Overview: This is the touching story of the benevolent naturalist who roamed the Ohio valley in the early 1800's, planting apple orchards, making friends, and spreading goodwill along his way. Known to early settlers as a gentle soul with a reverence for all life, Johnny never missed a chance to save an abandoned animal or to savor a delicious apple pie.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Rabbit Ears - Parables That Jesus Told
Overview: Here the parables of The Sower, The Good Samaritan and The Prodigal Son come to life against the backdrop of Jesus journeys through Galilee and Judea. The parables are put into a context that makes their simple truths resonate with meaning for young audiences.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Overview: For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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