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	Lew Grade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lew Grade, Baron Grade (birth name Louis Winogradsky) (December 25, 1906 - December 13, 1998) was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom.
		Lew Grade is best known by viewing audiences as the man responsible for a number of cult British TV series, including The Saint and The Prisoner, through his ITC Entertainment production company.
		Grade was instrumental in bringing The Muppet Show to the screen and was immortalized by Jim Henson, who made a Muppet in his image -- Dr Bunsen Honeydew -- which had a very different personality and profession: He was the epitome of a Mad Scientist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lew_Grade (576 words)

	Michael Grade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British born businessman from a Jewish background and is a distinguished figure in the field of broadcasting.
		It is not entirely clear the extent to which Grade alone was responsible for these decisions, but in the case of both Dynasty and Doctor Who he became the most prominent target of the campaigns to save the series.
		Grade had ambitions to become chairman of the BBC board of governors in 2001, but lost out to Gavyn Davies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Grade (705 words)

	Michael Grade
		Michael Grade (born March 8, 1946) is a British businessman and a distinctive figure in the field of broadcasting.
		His father was the theatrical agent Leslie Grade, and his uncles were the impresarios Lord Lew Grade and Lord Bernard Delfont.
		Following Davies' resignation as a result of the Hutton Inquiry report, it was announced on 2 April 2004 that Grade had been appointed chairman of the BBC board of governors, he took up his post on May 17.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_grade.html (439 words)

	LORD GRADE'S WORDS OF WISDOM \| A TELETRONIC TV HISTORY ARTICLE
		It was said that by the 1960's Lew Grade and his brothers Leslie Grade and Bernard Delfont controlled 80 per cent of the British entertainment industry.
		As the founder of ATV it was Lew who gave the green light for some of the most fondly remembered television shows of all time.
		Lew was also upset when the devoutly Catholic Zeffirelli criticised the choice of Robert Powell to play Jesus, on the basis that, at the time, he was 'living in sin' with the dancer - and now Mrs.
	www.teletronic.co.uk /grade.htm (869 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lew Grade was by now a major player in the world of entertainment, he was held in high regard as a man who would honour his word, look after his clients and get the best deals.
		Lew was appointed Chairman of the company and there wasn't a television maker or sponsor in the world who didn't know his name or wouldn't re-arrange their busy timetables to accommodate him.
		Lew Grade the man may no longer be with us, but as long as the medium of television is, Lew Grade, the legend, will continue to endure.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hisgrade.htm (3455 words)

	Grade gets top job \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		Grade, 61, is a former senior executive at the BBC who was chosen from a shortlist of people to replace Gavyn Davies, who along with BBC director general Greg Dyke, resigned in the wake of the Hutton Report.
		Grade, is a keen supporter of Yiddish culture and acts as vice president of the JMI International Forum for Yiddish Culture.
		He became a theatrical agent in the mid 1960s for his family firm Grade organisation run by uncles Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont and then made the leap into television in the 1970s where he rapidly rose to top positions.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/887_grade_gets_top_job.htm (243 words)

	BBC News \| Entertainment \| Media legend Grade dead
		Lew Grade, who was born on Christmas Day 1906, once claimed he would not retire before 2001.
		There was Lew as chairman of ATV, which he lost control of on reaching the directors' age limit of 70 only to burst out as the largest film-maker in the world as he built up Associated Communications Corporation, and then more.
		Lord Grade's nephew Michael, the son of his other brother Leslie, leap-frogged through TV, first as director of programmes at London Weekend Television, then director of programmes for BBC Television and on to the job of chief executive of Channel 4.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/newsid_234000/234005.stm (507 words)

	Part 3: the war and after \| TV Heroes
		Upon meeting her, Lew thought she was about fourteen and told her that he thought she was too young for the act, although the truth was that he thought the act too crude for her to cope with.
		Lew agreed, but the box remained unopened in the bottom drawer of his desk for several weeks until one day he wondered what it would be like to smoke one.
		Lew asked her who it was, but when Warner couldn’t tell him, he hung up.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/tvheroes/lewgrade/index3.php (1502 words)

	lew grade
		And Lew was also the last great link with the old Jewish East End – the East End of working class lads who transformed themselves through hard work and an eye for the chance into the great entrepreneurs of post-War London.
		Lew was hooked and sold up the firm to become a professional dancer, “the man with the musical feet”.
		By now he was “Lew Grade”, after his name was misspelt on a bill, but by the 1930s knee problems – and the fact that the Charleston had had its day – prompted him to move into management.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /grade.htm (849 words)

	Lew Grade - TheBestLinks.com - December 25, December 13, Jim Henson, The Prisoner, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lew Grade - TheBestLinks.com - December 25, December 13, Jim Henson, The Prisoner,...
		Lew Grade, December 25, December 13, Jim Henson, The Prisoner, United Kingdom...
		Lew Grade, Baron Grade (birth name Louis Winogradsky) (December 25, 1906 - December 13, 1998) was a showbusiness impresario and Television company executive in the United Kingdom.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Lew_Grade.html (189 words)

	Un-Official Raise The Titanic! Movie-Media Publications-Last of a Kind: The Sinking of Lew Grade
		Grade announced an actual start-date on Raise The Titanic “next month in Malta” (it would be October) “and costing between £18 and £20 million”, there was by now more a sense of déjà vu about some vaguely familiar blockbuster than the eager anticipatory buzz of anything even remotely new.
		According to Bernard Kingham, Grade’s deputy at ITC, the British arm of the film empire, the first major problems were with the script.
		Grade clearly had more sympathy with the philosophy, as postulated by the films producer William Frye: “There is a mystique about the Titanic that will draw people into the theatre.
	www.raisethetitanic.com /movie/misc_wp/media_publications/last_of_a_kind_the_sinking_of_lew_grade.html (2313 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Michael Grade: Maverick mogul
		Grade came from a showbusiness dynasty, with his uncles, impresarios Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont, a major influence.
		He consequently became a theatrical agent with the Grade organisation in 1966 and moved into TV in 1973 as deputy controller of entertainment programmes at London Weekend Television.
		Mr Grade's achievements were recognised with a CBE in 1998.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3591987.stm (705 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Grade was so impressed by the proposal that he gave the green light for it without even consulting the rest of his board, committing £390,000 pounds of the £500,000 capital that they had at their disposal.
		It was a bold move by Lew Grade and certainly one that didn't meet with approval by all the members of ITC's board.
		Lew Grade would later claim that, "ATV changed the whole complexion of television with our adventurous programming." It proved to be no idle boast.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /history9c.htm (2616 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lew Grade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Michael Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British businessman and a distinctive figure in the field of broadcasting.
		The Board of Governors of the BBC is a group of twelve people who together regulate the BBC and represent the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners.
		The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of Muppets (diverse hand operated puppets, typically with huge eyes and large moving mouths) produced by Jim Henson and his team from 1976 to 1981.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lew-Grade (1715 words)

	Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		More results on "Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree" when you join.
		Grade of Elstree, Lew Grade, Baron (Louis [or Lewis] Winogradsky)
		Russian-born British motion-picture, television, and theatrical producer Lew Grade was one of the most influential personalities in British popular entertainment.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037585?&query=chaim (699 words)

	sub-TV : ATV Centre : Friendliness is part of Sir Lew's success secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yet Sir Lew is recognised even by his rivals - I don't think he has a real enemy in the world - as a fair and very human person, who can be approached direct by the lowliest office boy and asked for a rise.
		There is, of course, a tough side to Sir Lew - the toughness that enables him to survive and succeed as a business man in the entertainment jungle.
		It is rarely seen outside the boardroom or away from the negotiating table; and, when it is, it is in response to the one criticism he will react to angrily: that he serves up in TV programme terms only what the public wants.
	www.sub-tv.co.uk /atvcentre/lewsuccess.asp (622 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Twenty years ago Patrick McGoohan was a television star, having shot from acting obscurity to prominence in Lew Grade’s television spy series Danger Man. Soon afterwards he became a sort of cult figure when his next ATV programme, The Prisoner, attracted vast audiences.
		Grade was looking for a distinctive young actor to play a secret agent in his new series, Danger Man. In McGoohan he saw what he wanted.
		Lord Grade himself denies that he axed the series — “It was only decided to do 17 episodes, that’s what Patrick wanted” — but with McGoohan himself turning his back on the project, ATV had to shelve any plans for a second series.
	www.danger-man.co.uk /docs/Telegraph.doc (2118 words)

	screenonline: Sid Cole: BECTU Interview Part 3 (1987)
		It was made in conjunction with Associated Television which was Lew Grade.
		During that time between 1955 and 60 the eminence behind the throne was the famous Lew Grade who I always found a very agreeable person.
		Among other things he had this habit of summoning you to conferences at the ATV building at Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning where he was be already smoking one of those enormous Havana cigars that he was famous for.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /audio/id/838166 (1328 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the 1960s, Lew Grade took over the old British National Studios -- now BBC Elstree -- and turned it into an internationally famous television facility.
		A workaholic with a passion for striking a deal, Lew Grade is often pictured with a trademark nine-inch cigar.
		Sir Sydney said Lew Grade was a talent-spotter, acting on hunches, giving people a chance who had been turned down by other backers.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=84916 (430 words)

	Stage 125 :: Timeline :: 1955-1979
		With younger brothers Bernard Delfont and Leslie Grade, Lew rose from his East End immigrant background to become a major force in showbusiness.
		Littler was chairman but Lew Grade was the driving force, setting up an independent company to produce a string of ATV hits.
		Lew, by 1973 also chairman of Stoll Moss theatres, was well practised in US television distribution and intent on Hollywood co-production.
	www.thestage.co.uk /stage125/timeline.php/1955/focus (588 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Making of the Grade
		Lew Grade was a showbiz mogul of the old school.
		Lew was just six when he left with his parents and brothers Leslie and Bernard - later to become Lord Delfont - to start a new life in London's East End.
		Under Lord Grade, ATV came to dominate television from the 1950s into the 1970s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/newsid_234000/234052.stm (563 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Betsy Lew's first-grade class at O.B. Whaley School, composed of children who speak a variety of languages at home, is taught mostly in English.
		Lew now relies more on repetition, hand signals and other visual cues to get students to comprehend what is happening.
		In the widely cited study, known as "The Ramirez Report," researchers reported that, through the third grade, English language skills and student achievement were comparable for all three types of programs.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/linguistics/people/grads/macswan/SJMN6.htm (4415 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Patrick McGoohan
		Having learned from his experience as a product of the Rank Organisation he insisted on several conditions before agreeing to do the spy show Danger Man: all the fistfights should be different, the character would always use his brain before using a gun, and, much to the horror of the executives, no kissing.
		Grade asked if he would at least work on something for him, and McGoohan, always prepared, gave him a run-down of a mini-series about a man in a secret position who resigns suddenly and wakes up to find himself in a prison disguised as a holiday resort.
		Grade asked for a budget, McGoohan had one ready, and they made a deal over a handshake early on a Saturday morning to produce a completely new kind of television show called The Prisoner.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Patrick_McGoohan (1045 words)

	LLED 314 Frances Lew Poetry Unit Plan
		Grade 8 - The Giver - Kyla Ayers
		Grade 11 - Catcher in the Rye - Charles Cox
		They’ll also write poems of their own, which will be shared during an informal “coffee-house class” during the final class of the poetry unit.
	www.library.ubc.ca /edlib/lessonplans/sec/lled314/2003/englishunitplans/Summaries/10-Frances-Lew-Poetry.html (302 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His name was Sir Lew Grade and what he did was he invited The Muppets and my father to England to shoot a full season of the show.
		[Lew Grade:] "All we were doing is taking the chance with 24 episodes.
		I had no idea it would be such an extraordinary phenomenal success." The show ran five seasons and was seen in a hundred countries by more than 235 million children and adults.
	www.muppetcentral.com /guides/episodes/tms/intros/lew_grade.htm (155 words)

	BBC - Norfolk - Features - Michael Grade interview
		BBC chairman Michael Grade dropped into BBC East's headquarters in Norwich to see the state-of-the-art studios and take questions from radio's Graham Barnard on EastEnders, the licence fee and his memories of Great Yarmouth.
		Michael Grade toured the state-of-the-art station at The Forum, Norwich, and tested the studio facilities first-hand during his live interview with BBC Radio Norfolk presenter Graham Barnard.
		He was brought back from some outpost to be the managing director of television and he said, 'We need Grade' and he brought me back from America and we launched EastEnders and Wogan and we did The Singing Detective and Tutti Frutti, which is one of my all-time favourites.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/content/articles/2005/04/25/feature_michael_grade_feature.shtml (2033 words)

	In The Beginning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sir Lew Grade went straight to Reg Watson to make these outdoor showings of 'Lunch box' a more regular occurrence.
		Sir Lew had already received a program format from someone, and offered Peter Ling and Hazel Adair a 6 months contract to edit and shape the idea.
		So sir Lew gave the pair a weekend to come up with an idea of their own.
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