Dale Bell

A television producer and executive with many awards to his credit, Dale Bell's wide-ranging career has seen him write, produce, direct and sell many hours of documentary film. His recent works include The Secrets of War, Shangri-La: Ancient Mystery and California and the Dream Seekers for A&E, Pirate Tales for TBS, Battleship! for Discovery, A Driving Need for PBS, and Chariots of the Gods?: The Mystery Continues for ABC.

His productions in both film and television have earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Peabody Award, two Christopher Awards and two Cine Golden Eagle Awards. Bell has also just written and edited a 30th anniversary book which tells the many personal stories behind the Academy Award-winning movie Woodstock, of which he was a producer. He was also Martin Scorsese's assistant director on Mean Streets, producer of The Italian Americans, and Associate Producer of The Groove Tube. And, during Bell's four-year tenure as executive producer of the PBS book-based family movie series, WonderWorks won the Children's Act Award annually, as well as other domestic and international awards of excellence.

Bell has supervised production of National Geographic specials while producing two of them; he served as vice president of worldwide production at Pittsburgh's PBS affiliate WQED, working on documentaries, dramatic films, and performance specials that included music, dance, jazz and drama.

His extensive fund-raising savvy brought such Emmy Award-winning series as Kennedy Center Tonight and Previn and the Pittsburgh to fruition and to date, he has raised $57 million for the production of quality cultural programs. He has extensive experience in international co-production, distribution, project administration and management, station relations, publicity, and promotion. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Blackside Productions and The Shakespeare Guild.

Bell is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.