User:JOrland/John Orland

John Orland, renowned Filmmaker, Hollywood California. He was part of the three-person crew that was sent to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to document the making of John Huston's Night of the Iguana, for David L. Wolper's NBC TV series Hollywood and the Stars, narrated by Joseph Cotton. Orland then became a newsreel cameraman for Channel 9, KHJ Television. Through his Directions Unlimited, he took over managing a staff of cameramen and personally covered such seminal events as The Beatles arrival in Los Angeles, the 1967 Watts Riots, and Robert Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel. He became Clete Roberts personal cameraman and photographed the Rebellion led by student Mario Savio at the University of California, in Berkley, California. In 1969, while under Term Contract to Universal Studios, Weekly Variety announced that he 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.