User:JOrland

John Orland, renowned Filmmaker, Hollywood California. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Orland became a newsreel cameraman for Channel 9, KHJ Television. Through his Directions Unlimited, he took over the management of a staff of newsreel cameramen as well as personally covering such seminal events as The Beatles arrival in Los Angeles, the 1967 Watts Riots, and Robert Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel. He also became Clete Roberts personal cameraman and photographed the Rebellion at the University of California, in Berkley, California, led by student Mario Savio, where soon after Governor Ronald Reagan dispatched the California National Guard. Orland was part of the three-person crew that was sent to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the time a sleepy fishing village, to document the making of John Huston's "Night of the Iguana," produced by legendary film producer Ray Stark, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr,and Sue Lyon, for David L. Wolper's NBC TV series Hollywood and the Stars, narrated by Joseph Cotton. In 1969, Weekly Variety announced that John Orland, who was under term contract to Universal Studios,  would be Steven Spielberg's Producer on the theatrical motion picture entitled "Malcolm Winkler," written by Claudia Salter, to be Executive Produced by Frank Price. This would have been Spielberg's first feature film. Although Winkler was not made, John Orland became Executive Assistant to Frank Price at Universal Television. John Orland was born on July 18, 1939, Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, which is located about 9 miles from Center City, Philadelphia.