Kirk Browning
79 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Mar 28, 1921
- Died
- Feb 10, 2008 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Kirk Browning (March 28, 1921 – February 10, 2008) was an American television director and producer who had hundreds of productions to his credit, including 185 broadcasts of Live from Lincoln Center.
Born in New York City, Browning dropped out of Cornell University after attending for only one month and moved to Waco, Texas, where he was hired as a newspaper reporter. Because of a childhood injury, he was rejected by the United States Army when he tried to enlist during World War II, so he worked as an ambulance driver in England and France. In the late 1940s, he was a chicken farmer operating an egg route in Ridgefield, Connecticut when one of his customers offered him a job in the music library at NBC. The clerical position led to his directing live televised performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Soon after he was made a stage manager of the network's newly formed opera company, and he later became its Director.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.1 Great Performances
1971 · TV
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★ 6.6 American Playhouse
1982 · TV
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★ 8.8 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV
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★ 6.1 Mayerling
1957 · Film
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★ 6.8 Alice in Wonderland
1983 · Film
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★ 6.9 The Taming of the Shrew
1976 · Film
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★ 6.5 Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958 · TV
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★ 6.3 The United States Steel Hour
1953 · TV
Kirk Browning: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (87)
- 2010
- 2006
- 2006
- 2000 Death of a Salesman
Director
- 1998
- 1996 New York City Opera: The Merry Widow
Director
- 1992
- 1991
- 1991 The Grapes of Wrath
Director
- 1990
- 1990 William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Director
- 1989 Show Boat
Director
- 1989 Our Town
Director
- 1988
- 1988 A Walk in the Woods
Director
- 1987 The House of Blue Leaves
Director
- 1987 Turandot
Director
- 1986 Die Fledermaus
Director
- 1986 Candide
Director
- 1986
- 1985 The Gospel at Colonus
Director
- 1985 Tosca
Director
- 1984 You Can't Take it With You
Director
- 1984
- 1983 Ernani
Director
- 1983 Alice in Wonderland
Director
- 1983
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982 Fifth of July
Director
- 1982 Horowitz in London
Director
- 1982 Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Director
- 1982 Working
Director
- 1982
- 1982 Idomeneo
Director
- 1982 Puccini: La bohème
Director
- 1981 Il trittico
Director
- 1981
- 1981 L'Elisir d'Amore
Director
- 1981 Elixir of Love
Director
- 1981 Samson et Dalila
Director
- 1980 Big Blonde
Director
- 1980 Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Director
- 1980 Don Carlo
Director
- 1979 Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
Director
- 1979 Don Pasquale
Director
- 1978 Tosca - Metropolitan Opera
Director
- 1978 Tartuffe
Director
- 1978 Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Director
- 1978 The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Director
- 1978 Horowitz at the White House
Director
- 1977 The Royal Family
Director
- 1977 Rigoletto
Director
- 1977 The Prince of Homburg
Director
- 1977 La Bohème
Director
- 1976 The Taming of the Shrew
Director
- 1976
- 1976 Copland Conducts Copland
Director
- 1976 The Time of Your Life
Director
- 1976 La Traviata
Director
- 1975 The Rules of the Game
Director
- 1975 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Director
- 1974 A Touch of the Poet
Director
- 1974 June Moon
Director
- 1974 Enemies
Director
- 1974 The Daughter of the Regiment
Director
- 1971
- 1969 The Violent Universe
Director
- 1967 Damn Yankees
Director
- 1967 Lizzie Borden
Director
- 1966
- 1963 Amahl and the Night Visitors
Director
- 1962 Noah and the Flood
Director
- 1960
- 1959
- 1958 The Christmas Tree
Director
- 1958
- 1957 Mayerling
Director
- 1956 The Letter
Director
- 1955 Amahl and the Night Visitors
Director
- 1954
- 1953
- 1951
- 1951 Amahl and the Night Visitors
Director
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Assistant Director