Ted is interviewed by his former student and NAA member Chris Knowlton. Appropriately for the Academy, Ted has both a Canadian and Unites States background. He recounts his coping with recurrent tuberculosis in the early years of his professional life, his experience as an educator, and his years as a television judge on the programs …

A review of four recent autobiographies of distinguished members of the Academy: Benjamin Aaron, Jim Jones, Richard Mittenthal and Arnold Zack.