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Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), was a pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter.
Donahue was born Thomas Coman in South Bend, Indiana. His career started in 1949 on the East Coast of the U.S. at WTIP in West Virginia and continued at WIBG in Philadelphia and WINX in Maryland. He moved to San Francisco in 1961 during the payola scandal involving Alan Freed, Dick Clark and several other East Coast DJs. He was brought to San Francisco by Les Crane, former Program Director at WIBG who had been hired to make a winner out of loser station, KYA. Crane also brought in Peter Tripp from WMGM, New York and "Bobby Mitchell" from WIBG.
While a disc jockey at Top Forty station KYA (now KOIT) in San Francisco, Donahue and Mitchell formed a record label. Autumn Records had subsequent hits with Bobby Freeman and The Mojo Men, and Sly Stone was a staff producer. But Autumn's biggest act was one that Donahue discovered, produced, recorded, and managed, The Beau Brummels, which he later sold to Warner Bros. Records. He also opened a psychedelic nightclub (Mothers on Broadway in San Francisco), and produced concerts at the Cow Palace and Candlestick Park with his partner Mitchell (later known as Bobby Tripp in L.A. radio; real name Michael Guerra, d. 1968). Together, they produced the last public appearance of The Beatles on August 29, 1966 at Candlestick Park.
Tom Donahue (born May 18, 1968) is an American film director and producer. His latest feature documentary, HBO's Casting By, was nominated for an Emmy. In 2010, Donahue founded the production company, CreativeChaos with Ilan Arboleda and Steve Edwards.
Donahue co-directed an episode of the 10-part AFI series, 100 Years/100 Movies (with Linda Schaffer), which was broadcast on TNT in 1998. It was called The Antiheroes, and included interviews with Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader and was narrated by James Woods. The series was executive produced by Richard Schickel and Mel Stuart.
In 2005, Donahue directed the narrative short, Thanksgiving (starring James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel & written by Sean Gullette).
He made his feature documentary debut with Guest of Cindy Sherman (as co-director with Paul H-O) which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. The film opened theatrically in March 2009 and had its broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel in May 2009.
Actors: Charles Berling (actor), Yann Collette (actor), Basile de Bodt (actor), Natsume Hokusai (actor), Daniel Martin (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Benjamin Rataud (actor), Ioana Craciunescu (actress), Eva Ionesco (actress), Mariam Kaba (actress), Clara Le Picard (actress), Françoise Lebrun (actress), Dominique Valadié (actress), Valérie Vogt (actress), Michèle Rosier (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: G. Pat Collins (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Billy Dooley (actor), Cliff Edwards (actor), Charley Grapewin (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Wally Maher (actor), Hugh Marlowe (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor), Anthony Nace (actor), Edward Norris (actor), Dennis O'Keefe (actor), Leonard Penn (actor), William Bailey (actor),
Plot: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband. Claire refusing to leave Tom, provokes Allen to marry Patricia, a women whose life he saved. Patricia becomes furious for Allen is spending too much time on his profession and not on their marriage. Her suspicions of Allen having an affair with Claire are furthered when Tom is brought to the hospital after a severe accident. Patricia leaves Allen for Dr. Tony Wolcott. After some time, a train wreck is reported and Patricia is brought into the hospital with severe facial disfigurement. Allen, now a successful doctor, and Paricia reconcile. Time passes, Patricia's injuries heal and Allen is still in live with Claire. He must now choose "between two women".
Keywords: alcoholic, amputation, car-accident, christmas, divorce, doctor, fight, fireman, hospital, hystericsActors: S.B. Carrickson (actor), Charles Hammond (actor), Cecil Humphreys (actor), Claude King (actor), Ernest Lawford (actor), Charles Mcdonald (actor), Thomas Meighan (actor), Thomas Meighan (actor), Mary Foy (actress), Louise Grafton (actress), Lois Wilson (actress), Victor Heerman (producer), Thomas J. Geraghty (writer), Norman Venner (writer), Victor Heerman (director),
Plot: Tom Donahue, a New York City traffic-policeman on Fifth Avenue, wins a newspaper popularity contest, and decides to take a trip to Ireland to visit his family. Once there, he becomes involved in adventure posing as a look-alike Titleman, and finds romance with a spirited Irish girl.
Keywords: 1920s, adventurer, archive-footage, based-on-novel, cigarette-smoking, contest, deception, dual-role, duplicity, fifth-avenue-manhattan-new-york-city
KSAN 95 San Francisco - Tom Donahue Interviews Frank Zappa - 1968
February 1991 episode of Phil Donahue featuring Peter Criss of KISS and his impostor.
Vince owns the entire show. Full Episode from 03-16-1992 featuring Murray Hodgekins, Vince McMahon, Barry Orton and Tony Cole in the first portion of the show. Here was the guest list: Vince McMahon: He looked to be about 20 years younger than he does now. And back then, people said he looked 20 years older than he really was. Vince was pure Vince on this show, before he had ever played heel on television. Bruno Sammartino: If Bruno had sat next to McMahon, this show would've turned into a Jerry Springer-like onstage brawl. As it turned out, Bruno remained calm and made the most sense out of anyone on the panel. Superstar Billy Graham: Graham was there to confirm his own experience with steroids and also his experience taking them with Hogan himself. Unfortunately, Grah...
Geena Davis and Tom Donahue discuss their new film, This Changes Everything, with Carrie Keagan at the DIRECTV House during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. This Changes Everything, filmaker Tom Donahue’s follow-up to the documentary Casting By, explores systemic gender inequality in Hollywood through the voices of a multitude of female celebrities, including Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Sandra Oh, Jessica Chastain, and many other ambassadors of the #TimesUp movement. Learn more about AT&T; news: https://about.att.com/category/all_news.html Learn more about AT&T;’s participation at the Toronto International Film Festival: https://about.att.com/story/2018/toronto_international_film_festival_2018.html #thischangeseverything #timesup #torontointernationalfilmfestival #tiff18
Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), was a pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter.
Donahue was born Thomas Coman in South Bend, Indiana. His career started in 1949 on the East Coast of the U.S. at WTIP in West Virginia and continued at WIBG in Philadelphia and WINX in Maryland. He moved to San Francisco in 1961 during the payola scandal involving Alan Freed, Dick Clark and several other East Coast DJs. He was brought to San Francisco by Les Crane, former Program Director at WIBG who had been hired to make a winner out of loser station, KYA. Crane also brought in Peter Tripp from WMGM, New York and "Bobby Mitchell" from WIBG.
While a disc jockey at Top Forty station KYA (now KOIT) in San Francisco, Donahue and Mitchell formed a record label. Autumn Records had subsequent hits with Bobby Freeman and The Mojo Men, and Sly Stone was a staff producer. But Autumn's biggest act was one that Donahue discovered, produced, recorded, and managed, The Beau Brummels, which he later sold to Warner Bros. Records. He also opened a psychedelic nightclub (Mothers on Broadway in San Francisco), and produced concerts at the Cow Palace and Candlestick Park with his partner Mitchell (later known as Bobby Tripp in L.A. radio; real name Michael Guerra, d. 1968). Together, they produced the last public appearance of The Beatles on August 29, 1966 at Candlestick Park.