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Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents.
At the age of eight, Spelling lost the use of his legs psychosomatically due to trauma caused by constant bullying from his schoolmates, and was confined to bed for a year. Spelling attended Forest Avenue High School. He served in the United States Army Air Force and was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster. He then attended Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1949. He married actress Carolyn Jones in 1953, and they moved to California. He has two children, Randy Spelling and Tori Spelling, who acted as "Donna" in his show Beverly Hills, 90210. His grandson, Liam Aaron McDermott, son of daughter Tori and her husband, actor Dean McDermott was born posthumusly. Liam`s second name is in honor of his grandfather. Hollywood career and life Spelling sold his first script to Jane Wyman Theater in 1954. He went on to write for Dick Powell, Playhouse 90, and Last Man, amongst others. Later, he also found work as an actor. In total he played screen parts in 22 programs (in several shows, a few episodes, yet none of his flagships) and perhaps the best known being Gunsmoke between 1956 and 1997. During the 1950s, Spelling joined Powell`s Four Star Productions. After Powell`s death, Spelling formed Thomas-Spelling Productions with Danny Thomas. Their first success was with the television show The Mod Squad. In total he wrote for 14 television productions between 1957 and 1974, including several series with multiple episodes to his credit. He also began a collaboration at this time with associate producer Shelley Hull, who, aside from "The Mod Squad", worked with Spelling on "The Rookies" and "Charlie`s Angels." Hull also worked with Spelling in 1976 on the hit ABC movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble", starring a young John Travolta. Spelling directed only once, on "The Conchita Vasquez Story", a 1959 TV Episode of Wagon Train. Spelling divorced Jones in 1965 and in 1968 he married Carole Gene Marer, who took his name as Candy Spelling. He was father of Victoria Davey Spelling and Randall Gene Spelling, both of whom became actors as teenagers, as Tori Spelling and Randy Spelling. They appeared in several of their father`s productions, most notably in Beverly Hills, 90210. The pivotal moment for the maturation of Spelling was the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Spelling knew two of the students who had been killed, and even claimed to see one student, Allison Krause, with exit wounds from the M1 Garand rifle. At this moment, Spelling claims he changed the idea of television comedy into a tragic concept. In 1991, Spelling bought the home and six acre lot of Bing Crosby`s former Los Angeles house. He demolished the property, and built a 123-room home for the cost of USD $47,000,000, named "The Manor", which has 56,500 square feet of floor space and is the largest single-family dwelling in Hollywood (34°4`23"N 118°25`41"W). In 1972, he created Aaron Spelling Productions, and formed another co-production company with Leonard Goldberg. Spelling took his own company public in 1986 as Spelling Entertainment. Spelling also produced the NBC daytime soap opera Sunset Beach from 1997 to 1999, and in one of his few acting roles since the 1960s, played one of Bette`s (Kathleen Noone) ex-husbands for one day in 1997. He also appeared as himself on 27 programs between 1992 and 2005. After 2000 Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Spelling |
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Quotes You can`t predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can`t predict if a show is going to work or not until it`s on the air. There are a couple of things that I`m sure people don`t think are important, but I do. I don`t like hair changes unless there`s a reason for it. Clothing-I don`t like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour-you can wear it again a few weeks later. A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it`s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows? I don`t travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them. Nowadays, people always say, how come he`s doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It`s the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. I don`t remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together. It`s been a straight strip, I must tell you, I`ve enjoyed it all the way. If I`m saying things to make it sound like it`s hard, hard work, it`s not. It`s beautiful work. It`s fun work. It`s everything you`d ever want to do. I`ll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don`t have any anthologies anymore, do we? Even a cop show was an anthology. I miss that, I miss it a lot. I don`t know why they`re not successful anymore; people just won`t try them. I must tell you, I haven`t done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It`s a hard show to do, but I think it`s going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it`s a pretty strong show. You know what shows today are missing? Stars. But, I don`t know, the violence, I can`t even talk about. We don`t do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Right now I`m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it`s a lot of good work. It`s fun to do it, but it does wear you out. Now I`ve even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I`m trying to gather fans, frankly. They`re very, very nice people - they really understand. It`s fun talking to them. It`s OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can`t kiss another person because he`s a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I`m from Dallas, Texas. One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much. We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It`s impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market. I`m basically a writer. I never wanted to be a producer. Dick Powell made me a producer, because I was writing his host spots on Zane Grey Theater. I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it`s really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer. When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire! I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. But it`s true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It`s like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.Trivia He used to be a cheerleader. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His 6-acre mansion "The Manor" at 594 Mapleton Drive in Bel Air, California has 123 rooms, a bowling alley, swimming pool, gymnasium, tennis court, screening room and four 2-car garages. Spelling bought the property in 1983, including a house that had belonged to Bing Crosby. He demolished the Crosby house and built the largest single-family home in California. Took the name 'Jerry Lane' during World War II. He launched careers for different actors such as Jamie Luner, Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, Marcia Cross and George Eads, just to name a few. At some point during the run of "Degrassi Junior High" (1987), Spelling made an attempt to buy the rights and produce the show in America. Shortly after his request was declined, he produced "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990). Had so many shows on ABC in the 1970s, people in the business joked that ABC stood for "Aaron's Broadcasting Company". He suffered from fear of flying. Holds Guinness World Record for most prolific television producer. Suffered a stroke on June 18, 2006 and was briefly hospitalized. Despite his $500,000,000 fortune, according to her autobiography "Story Telling", he left his daughter Tory only a little more than $800,000 in his will. She writes that, after death taxes, she netted only half that. His daughter, Tori Spelling,'s godmother was Barbara Stanwyck. Was a lifelong pipe smoker. In 2001 he was diagnosed with oral cancer. Four of his shows (and counting) have been made into theatrical films. Business partners included E. Duke Vincent and Leonard Goldberg. Was a neighbor of Farrah Fawcett for ten years. Friend of Nolan Miller, Dominick Dunne and Lawrence Gordon. His mentor was Dick Powell. They both suffered from throat cancer from heavy smoking. Father of actress Tori Spelling and actor Randy Spelling Graduated from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas with a Bachelors of Arts degree in 1945 | ||
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