Biography — Season 1, Episode 6: King Arthur: His Life and Legends

About Biography

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.

More episodes from Season 1

• E16 Apr. 1987
• E2Al Capone: Scarface
• E3Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
• E4Bugsy Siegel
• E5Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet
• E7Lucky Luciano: Chairman of the Mob
• E8Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom
• E9Muhammad: The Prophet
• E10Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France
• E11Bonnie & Clyde: The Story of Love & Death
• E12Babe Ruth
• E13Frederick Douglass