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Studs Terkel

Acting

Born May 16, 1912 · New York, New York, U.S

Died October 31, 2008

Also known as Louis Terkel

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Biography

Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

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Awards & recognition

  • Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award · 2004
  • Order of Lincoln · 2004
  • Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award · 2003
  • George Polk Award · 1999
  • Thomas Merton Award · 1998
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  • National Book Award · 1997
  • National Humanities Medal · 1997
  • Pulitzer Prize — General Nonfiction · 1985
  • Eugene V. Debs Award · 1983
  • Paul Robeson Award · 1981
  • Peabody Awards · 1980
  • Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech
  • Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award

Filmography10 titles

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

1997

The Civil War

1990as Benjamin Butler / Various

The Dollmaker

1984as Taxi Driver

Baseball

1994as Self (voice)

Eight Men Out

1988as Hugh Fullerton

The Big One

1997as Self - Author / Radio Host

The Daily Show

1996as Self

Algren

2021as Self

Studs Terkel: Listening to America

2009as Self

The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

1984as Narrator