RALPH BAKSHI - Director part 1: with John A. Gallagher LORD OF THE RINGS

From 1982 to 1992, John Gallagher and Ira Gallen collaborated on the cable TV show THE DIRECTORS SERIES, featuring John's incisive interviews with hundreds of cinema personalities past and present. Lee Marvin, Dennis Hopper, Sir Richard Attenborough, Sydney Pollack, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Anne Francis, James Toback, Robert Downey Sr., Wolfgang Petersen (in his first American interview upon the release of DAS BOOT), Sam Raimi (in his very first video interview, promoting THE EVIL DEAD) -- these are just a few of the many filmmakers represented in Gallagher's candid, in-depth filmmaker-on-filmmaker interviews. The shows were produced and edited by Gallen, photographed by Gallen and Billy Coleman (longtime SOPRANOS camera operator). The shows aired in New York on Manhattan Cable TV, and nationally through various film school outlets, and are now available for the first time on Google Video. For more information visit www.TVDays.com.