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Joanne Brough (aka Joan Brough) (born November 4, 1927) was an American television producer and executive. She began her career in 1960 at KTLA, a Los Angeles television station, and went on to work for CBS Television from 1963 to 1978, rising through the ranks to become one of the first female network development executives.〔Myrna Oliver, (“Joanne Brough, 77; TV Producer, Network Development Executive,” ) ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 12, 2005.〕 She oversaw and developed such hit shows as ''All in the Family, Kojak, Hawaii-Five-0, M *A *S *H, Knot’s Landing, Eight Is Enough, The Waltons, Dallas, Falcon Crest'', and others. From 1978 to 1986, she joined Lorimar Productions, becoming Vice President of Creative Affairs, supervising all television programs. During her tenure there, she became Executive Producer of ''Falcon Crest'', as well as several movies for television. In 1990, she went to work for Lee Rich Productions in association with Warner Brothers, as a development executive, producing TV films and specials for three years. From 1993 to 1998, she took on the task of producing television in Singapore and Indonesia. Her later years were spent as an educator while continuing to develop new projects. She received two Nosotros Awards and a medal from the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation while producing the TV series ''Falcon Crest''. She also received an award from the Dyslexia Association of Singapore for the Asian dramatic series ''Masters of the Sea'', presented by the wife of the Prime Minister of Singapore. == Early life == Joanne Brough (né Joanne Estelle Walker) was born in Joplin, Missouri, to father James Franklin Walker, an entrepreneur, real estate developer, and photographer, and mother Marion Tindall Walker (Smith), a Presbyterian deacon later in life. She grew up at her parents’ Sagmount Hotel and Inn,〔(Missouri Digital Heritage Library: Sagmount )〕 a large resort in the countryside outside of Joplin. She first attended Lake Hill School, a two-room country grammar school, where ages were mixed. Upon graduating from Joplin High School, she traveled to Los Angeles to attend the University of California in 1945 as an English major at age sixteen. She returned to Joplin when her father died, and later married her first husband, Arthur R. Chaves, there in 1949. They then settled in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joanne Brough」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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