ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ remembers legendary producer and alumnus Bob Banner
The 1943 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ alumnus produced "Candid Camera" and "The Carol Burnett Show," among many others.
By Nancy George
ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ News
The television producer graduated from ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ in 1943 with a business degree and remained loyal to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ throughout his career. He returned to campus in 1979-80 to serve as the Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor of Broadcast Film and continued to visit regularly to speak to students, including serving as consultant from 2001-2003 to the cinema-television department at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Meadows School of the Arts. He received ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1959.
“Bob Banner is an ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ icon,” said Marshall Terry, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ professor emeritus of English and author of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ history From High on the Hilltop, when he introduced Banner at a 2007 lecture for the Friends of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Libraries at Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas. “Bob is one of the most creative persons to attend ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.”
— Bob Banner reminisces about his career as producer of television shows such as “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Garry Moore Show” and “Candid Camera.”
ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Channel 19 on Park Cities Charter Cable will remember Bob’s contributions to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and to the TV industry in a special rebroadcast of his one-hour interview for the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Video Archive Series at 7 p.m. and 8:03 p.m. June 16, 2011.
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