Brandon Stoddard
| Brandon Stoddard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brandon B. Stoddard March 31, 1937 Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
| Died | December 22, 2014 (aged 77) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States, |
| Cause of death | Bladder cancer |
| Spouse(s) | Alexandra Green Johns (29 July 1961 - 1974; 2 children)) Mary Ann Dolan (February 1984 - 22 December 2014) ; (his death)) |
Brandon Stoddard (March 31, 1937 – December 22, 2014) was an American television executive. He was president of ABC Entertainment between 1985–89 and head of ABC Productions between 1989-1995. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Brandon Stoddard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in on March 31, 1937. His parents were Johnson Stoddard, a lawyer, and Constance Stoddard. He grew up in Southport. He played guitar in a calypso band. He attended Deerfield Academy and graduated from Yale University in 1958. He served in the US army and went to study at Columbia Law School.
Brandon Stoddard started his career in ABC in 1970 as the director of daytime programming, he led the network’s motion picture division and president of ABC Entertainment from 1985 to 1989 . During his tenure as the head of ABC entertainment shows such as Roseanne, The Wonder Years and Thirtysomething were created. He was responsible for the creation of TV movies like Friendly Fire and The Day After. He worked to develop the miniseries in American television. Miniseries included The Thorn Birds (1983), The Winds of War (1983), and Amerika. His most successful show was the miniseries Roots based on Alex Haley's novel. From 1989 to 1995 he was the president of the first in-house production company in ABC producing shows lke My So-Called Life. After leaving ABC he worked as an adjunct professor at University of Southern California’s School for Cinema and Television, teaching graduate students for ten years.
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