Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ remembers legendary producer and alumnus Bob Banner
The 1943 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ alumnus produced "Candid Camera" and "The Carol Burnett Show," among many others.
By Nancy George
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ News
The television producer graduated from Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ in 1943 with a business degree and remained loyal to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ 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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Meadows School of the Arts. He received Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1959.
“Bob Banner is an Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ icon,” said Marshall Terry, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ professor emeritus of English and author of the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ history From High on the Hilltop, when he introduced Banner at a 2007 lecture for the Friends of the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Libraries at Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas. “Bob is one of the most creative persons to attend Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.”
— Bob Banner reminisces about his career as producer of television shows such as “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Garry Moore Show” and “Candid Camera.”
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Channel 19 on Park Cities Charter Cable will remember Bob’s contributions to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and to the TV industry in a special rebroadcast of his one-hour interview for the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Video Archive Series at 7 p.m. and 8:03 p.m. June 16, 2011.
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