Marc Hirschfeld (Best of, Part 1 of 2)

Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Barry Katz

Comedy

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Marc Hirschfeld, is one of the greatest TV casting directors in history. Best known for his Emmy Award winning work on “Seinfeld,” he cut his teeth with the legendary Norman Lear during the days of "All in the Family" and worked his way up the ladder on such hit shows as "The Facts of Life," "The Jeffersons," "One Day at a Time," "Diff'rent Strokes," "227," "Silver Spoons," “The Wonder Years,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” “The Nanny,” “The Drew Carey Show,” and did the original casting of the hit series that help launched the Fox Network, "Married...With Children," along with hits “Party of Five,” “MADtv,” and “That 70’s Show.” He was appointed Executive Vice President of Casting at NBC/Universal (Network & Cable) in 1999 and served in that capacity for the next decade, supervising the original casting of such hit shows as "3rd Rock from the Sun," "NewsRadio," "The Office,” “30 Rock,” "Heroes," "My Name Is Earl," "Friday Night Lights," and “Southland.” On the cable side he supervised the casting of USA Network hits “Psych”, “Burn Notice”, “In Plain Sight”, “Starter Wife,” “Royal Pains,” and “White Collar.”Most recently, he has cast multiple shows including ABC’S “Last Man Standing” with Tim Allen, Chelsea Handler’s “Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea” for NBC, and “Happily Divorced” with Fran Drescher for TV Land…while supervising AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” “Hell on Wheels,” “The Killing,” and Starz’ “Spartacus,” “Boss,” and “Magic City.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/support

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1:19.7	want it to go. An audience will forgive a bad episode of something if they love the characters.
1:32.3	A lot of series have sort of skated by for a number of years on mediocre material just because
1:39.9	the actors are so good. The audience invites them to the home. They love to hang out with them.
1:50.0	My guest today is a man that actually needs no introduction. A guy who, in my opinion,
2:06.3	if there's a Mount Rushmore for television casting directors, in my opinion, this guy's face is
2:13.7	one of the four faces. He's incredible. He's worked on so many shows. You won't even believe it.
2:21.5	If I were to list all these shows, I'm not going to list all of them. He's worked on one day at a
2:26.4	time, Facts of Life, this is Spinal Tap, ER, different strokes, married with children, the wonder
2:33.6	years. Alph, Parker Lewis, can't lose the Larry Sanders show. The Nanny, Party of Five, the Drew
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