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Roy Campanella II
American film director
This article is about the television director and producer. For his father, the baseball player, see Roy Campanella.
Roy Campanella II (born June 20, 1948) is a television director and producer.
Biography
Born Roy Campanella II, he is the son of professional baseball great Roy Campanella.[1][2] After directing some short films, the younger Campanella began directing episodic television. One of his first professional assignments was directing an episode of the Lou Grant television series in 1982. Within a few years he was also directing longer form television projects. He was also listed as a "creative consultant" in the credits of the sitcom 227.
By the late 1990s, he was also producing. He entered into an arrangement with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to executive produce a series of feature-length adaptations of black romance novels (three of which he also directed).
In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California.[3] Cam
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Roy Campanella Jr.
I met director-producer Roy Campanella Jr. at Jerry's Deli on Beverly Boulevard on June 18, 2002.
A film history buff, and the creator of the mini-studio Directors' Circle Filmworks, Campanella (son of baseball great Roy Campanella) seeks to emulate "the old studio operation. The buck stops here with one person.
"I made a longterm lease of 12,000 square feet at the Lacy Street [Production Center] north of downtown LA. There's production space, art department, wardrobe... We have a small construction mill. Lacy was really not a studio but a series of warehouses where you could shoot.
"I had a ten picture slate with BET (Black Entertainment Television cable channel). I decided that with that commitment I could create a studio in microcosm. We have the lowest cost studio you could imagine. The cost of our place per month doesn't run much more than a luxury apartment in Beverly Hills."
Luke: "I had a girlfriend who paid $2500 a month for her Beverly Hills apartment."
Roy: "That's about what I've got 12
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Roy Campanella
American baseball player (1921–1993)
This article is about the baseball player. For his son, the television director and producer, see Roy Campanella II.
Baseball player
| Roy Campanella | |
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Campanella with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956 | |
| Catcher | |
| Born:(1921-11-19)November 19, 1921 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |
| Died: June 26, 1993(1993-06-26) (aged 71) Woodland Hills, California, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| NgL: 1937, for the Washington Elite Giants | |
| MLB: April 20, 1948, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| September 29, 1957, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| Batting average | .282 |
| Home runs | 261 |
| Runs batted in | 1,023 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Induction | 1969 |
| Vote | 79.4% (seventh ballot) |
Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American professional baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for nine years before entering the minor leagues in 194
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