David L. Wolper’s long career in showbiz ranged from selling old movies and serials to program-hungry stations in the early days of television broadcasting to the heights of “Roots” and “The Thorn ...

The late David Wolper was a documentary and entertainment producer who applied his craft to live events like the LA Olympics - and to event television like the series “Roots.” Wolper was 82 when he ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — David L. Wolper, whose landmark 1977 miniseries "Roots" engrossed the nation with its saga of an American family descended from an African slave, has died. He was 82.

The three largest producers of documentary films for television are NBC, CBS and David Wolper. At 34, Wolper is the youngest, and often the most vigorous, of the three. His offices on Hollywood’s ...

This 1971 feature about man’s struggle against the insect world is less a movie than a monument to the commercial genius of David Wolper, who managed to turn a collection of unsalable nature footage ...

With the "Flags of the World" stunt in the can, Flaisher went on to join Wolper's official Olympics production team. Among other things, he helped ensure that the spaceship that descended on the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Award-winning producer David L. Wolper, who won numerous awards over a long career that included his African American mini-series "Roots", has died doing what he loved, ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - David L. Wolper, whose landmark 1977 miniseries "Roots" engrossed the nation with its saga of an American family descended from an African slave, has died. He was ...