Series

Biography

1987 · 27 seasons · Documentary

IMDb

7.7

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.

A&E Biography

First aired

April 6, 1987

Last aired

January 2, 2012

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

332

Rated

TV-14

Genres

Documentary

• 
  Season 1 (1992)15 episodes · 1987
• Season 2 (1993)1 episode · 1992
• Season 3 (1994)81 episodes
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  Season 4 (1995)2 episodes
• Season 532 episodes · 1996
• Season 651 episodes · 1997
• Season 726 episodes · 1998
• Season 80 episodes
• Season 92 episodes
• Season 1031 episodes · 1997
• Season 112 episodes · 1999
• Season 123 episodes
• Season 132 episodes
• Season 141 episode
• Season 150 episodes
• Season 160 episodes
• Season 170 episodes
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  Season 1829 episodes
• Season 192 episodes · 2004
• Season 2045 episodes · 2005
• Season 212 episodes · 2006
• Season 220 episodes
• Season 230 episodes
• Season 242 episodes · 2011
• Season 251 episode
• Season 261 episode
• Season 271 episode