Roy Campanella II (born June 20, 1948) is a

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and producer.

Biography

Born Roy Campanella II, he is the son of

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Roy Campanella Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for nine years before entering the minor lea ...

. After directing some short films, the younger Campanella began directing episodic television. One of his first professional assignments was directing an episode of the ''Lou Grant'' television series in 1982. Within a few years he was also directing longer form television projects. He was also listed as a "creative consultant" in the credits of the sitcom ''

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''. By the late 1990s, he was also producing. He entered into an arrangement with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to executive produce a series of feature-length adaptations of

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romance novels (three of which he also directed). In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley,

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. Campanella resigned 14 months later in the wake of reports that KPFA's 24-member Local Station Board (LSB) voted to terminate his employment. Tomas Moran, a former board member and KPFA supporter, speculated that Campanella was forced to resign because he rankled a fiercely entrenched bureaucracy that could not agree on the direction of the station. The previous general manager,

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, a former mayor of Berkeley, served less than a year before he stepped down, citing personal reasons.

Selected credits

Directing

Movies of the Week (MOWs)

Episodic

Awards and recognition

* 1992: DGA Award nomination * 1991: DGA Award

References

External links

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Interview
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