Filmography

• 2015Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
• 2005A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 1997Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
• 1992To Write and Keep Kind — Poetry Reader
• The Civil War — Benjamin Butler / Various
• 1988Eight Men Out — Hugh Fullerton
• 1984The Dollmaker — Taxi Driver
• 1984The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War — Narrator
• 1982Working — Self - Host, Book
• 1972Chicago Blues
• World in Action
• 1961Chicago: First Impressions of a Great American City — Producer
• Assignment America

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2021Algren — Self
• 2016Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley — Self
• Prohibition — Self - Writer
• 2009Soul of a People: Writing America's Story — Self
• 2009Studs Terkel: Listening to America — Self
• 2007Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago — Self
• 2006Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street — self
• The Culture Show — Self
• 1998Halsted Street, USA — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1997Anthem — Self
• 1997The Big One — Self - Author / Radio Host
• 1996Corwin — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Home Court — Self
• Baseball — Self (voice)
• 1992Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union — Self (voice)
• 1989Ridin' the Dog — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1985Interviews With Interviewers… About Interviewing — Self
• 1985Studs Terkel's Chicago — Self
• American Playhouse — Self – Host
• 1982The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time — Self
• Diamonds on the Silver Screen — Self