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Herbert Brodkin (November 9, 1912 – October 29, 1990) [citation needed] was an American producer and director of film and television. Brodkin was best known as the producer of the television shows Playhouse 90, The Defenders, the miniseries Holocaust and the short-lived series Coronet Blue.
Oct 31, 1990 · Herbert Brodkin, a television producer celebrated for his dramas on social issues on such series as "Playhouse 90" and "The Defenders," died on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 77 years...
Nov 12, 1990 · Herbert Brodkin, 77, innovative television producer who examined such subjects as Nazism (Holocaust and Skokie), euthanasia, blacklisting and abortion (episodes of The Defenders); in New...
Nov 28, 2017 · The 1961-1964 portion of the Brodkin resume includes as demanding a show as ever confronted an audience, The Defenders, with E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense lawyers, plus The Nurses, For the People, and Coronet Blue — altogether, some 300-plus hours of high-quality TV.
Herbert Brodkin was born on 9 November 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and set decorator, known for Holocaust (1978), The Alcoa Hour (1955) and Goodyear Playhouse (1951). He was married to Patricia M. Brodkin. He died on 29 October 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.
Nov 2, 1990 · Herbert Brodkin, a television producer celebrated for his dramas on social issues on such series as ”Playhouse 90” and ”The Defenders,” died Monday in Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 77. He died of...
Sep 1, 2009 · Brodkin was the youngest of six children born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York. He attended Yale drama school, and then joined the army, where he was responsible for producing USO shows for troops during World War II. His first television job was set designer on the 1950 CBS show Charlie Wild, Private Detective.
