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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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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