Russell Morash
Biography
Russell Morash (1936–2024) was an American television producer and director best known as the creator of This Old House. A longtime producer at WGBH in Boston, he also worked on influential programs including The French Chef, The Victory Garden, and The New Yankee Workshop. Morash helped pioneer instructional television by putting skilled craftspeople and experts at the center of practical, real-world programs. His work on This Old House, which debuted in 1979, helped establish the modern home-improvement television genre.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Self
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Self
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Sandy Abernathy
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.