Kirk Browning
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 28, 1921
- Died
- February 10, 2008 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Kirk Browning (March 28, 1921 – February 10, 2008) was an American television director and producer who had hundreds of productions to his credit, including 185 broadcasts of Live from Lincoln Center. Born in New York City, Browning dropped out of Cornell University after attending for only one month and moved to Waco, Texas, where he was hired as a newspaper reporter. Because of a childhood injury, he was rejected by the United States Army when he tried to enlist during World War II, so he worked as an ambulance driver in England and France. In the late 1940s, he was a chicken farmer operating an egg route in Ridgefield, Connecticut when one of his customers offered him a job in the music library at NBC. The clerical position led to his directing live televised performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Soon after he was made a stage manager of the network's newly formed opera company, and he later became its Director. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Filmography
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy – Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
Movie · Director
The Light in the Piazza: Live from Lincoln Center
Movie · Director
Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve
Movie · Director
Death of a Salesman
Movie · Director
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
Movie · Director
New York City Opera: The Merry Widow
Movie · Director
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Movie · Director
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie · Director
Antony & Cleopatra - Lyric Opera of Chicago
Movie · Director
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
Movie · Director
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Movie · Director
Our Town
Movie · Director
Show Boat
Movie · Director
A Walk in the Woods
Movie · Director
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
Movie · Director
Turandot
Movie · Director
The House of Blue Leaves
Movie · Director
Die Fledermaus
Movie · Director
Candide
Movie · Director
New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Movie · Director
The Gospel at Colonus
Movie · Director
Tosca
Movie · Director
You Can't Take it With You
Movie · Director
La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
Movie · Director
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Director
Ernani
Movie · Director
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Movie · Director
Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare
Movie · Director
Idomeneo
Movie · Director
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Movie · Director
Horowitz in London
Movie · Director
Working
Movie · Director
Fifth of July
Movie · Director
Lucia di Lammermoor - Metropolitan Opera
Movie · Director
Puccini: La bohème
Movie · Director
Der Rosenkavalier
Movie · Director
American Playhouse
TV · Director · 7 eps
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Live on Stage
Movie · Director
L'Elisir d'Amore
Movie · Director
Il trittico
Movie · Director
Elixir of Love
Movie · Director
Samson et Dalila
Movie · Director
Don Carlo
Movie · Director
Big Blonde
Movie · Director
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Movie · Director
Don Pasquale
Movie · Director
Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
Movie · Director
Tartuffe
Movie · Director
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Movie · Director
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Movie · Director
Tosca - Metropolitan Opera
Movie · Director
Horowitz at the White House
Movie · Director
The Royal Family
Movie · Director
Rigoletto
Movie · Director
The Prince of Homburg
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La Bohème
Movie · Director
New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville
Movie · Director
The Time of Your Life
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The Taming of the Shrew
Movie · Director
La Traviata
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Copland Conducts Copland
Movie · Director
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Movie · Director
The Rules of the Game
Movie · Director
Enemies
Movie · Director
A Touch of the Poet
Movie · Director
The Daughter of the Regiment
Movie · Director
June Moon
Movie · Director
Great Performances
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Violent Universe
Movie · Director
Damn Yankees
Movie · Director
Lizzie Borden
Movie · Director
NET Playhouse
TV · Director · 2 eps
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Movie · Director
Noah and the Flood
Movie · Director
Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
Movie · Director
Startime
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Christmas Tree
Movie · Director
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV · Director · 1 ep
Mayerling
Movie · Director
The Letter
Movie · Director
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Movie · Director
Producers' Showcase
TV · Director · 4 eps
The United States Steel Hour
TV · Director · 1 ep
Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner
Movie · Director
Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 6: Weber, Brahms
Movie · Director
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Movie · Director
America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers
Movie · Assistant Director
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · Director · 3 eps