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Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 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.
Birth Name
Louis Terkel
Born
Thursday, 16 May 1912
Died
Friday, 31 October 2008
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
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| Algren | Self | 2021 |
| John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs | (archive sound) | 2017 |
| Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... | Self | 2015 |
| Life Itself | Self | 2014 |
| Prohibition | Self - Writer | 2011 |
| Studs Terkel: Listening to America | Himself / Self | 2009 |
| Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street | Self | 2006 |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Interview | 2006 |
| A Note of Triumph: the Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Self | 2005 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices | 2005 |
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