Rick Sebak Net Worth

Rick Sebak Net Worth is
$600,000

Rick Sebak Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Richard "Rick" Sebak (born 1953) is an American film director and producer who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.Sebak is the creator of the "scrapbook documentary" genre, many of which he has created for WQED and PBS. Sebak attended Bethel Park High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate.His work is supported by the Buhl Foundation.Sebak's first foray in the nostalgia documentary is the 1984 documentary Shag for South Carolina ETV, about a dance popular in the region. Four years later at WQED, Sebak produced The Mon, The Al & The O, about the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers, which meet to form at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle; and Kennywood Memories, about Kennywood, a historic local amusement park.As of March 2006, 313,227 copies of Sebak's films had been sold or given away as pledge gifts by public television stations nationwide, which WQED credits with largely helping it become financially solvent. Sebak's scrapbook documentary format has been copied by other stations, many of whom see record pledge drive numbers when their documentaries air at pledge time.For his 25th year at the station, WQED produced a program called What Makes Rick Tick. Special photos of Sebak to celebrate this 25th anniversary were added to Yinztagram. The City of Pittsburgh declared the 1st week of December "Rick Sebak Week."

Date Of Birth1953-06-05
Place Of BirthBethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA
ProfessionProducer, Writer, Director
#Fact
1He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2For 11 years, he worked at the South Carolina Educational Television Network. There, he made an award-winning documentary about the official state dance, entitled "Shag".
3He calls his quirky cultural travelogues "scrapbook documentaries".
4Inventor of the public television nostalgia documentary. Best known for his narration of several documentaries about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Return to Downtown Pittsburgh2016TV Movie documentary producer
Breakfast Special2010TV Movie documentary producer
Invented, Engineered & Pioneered in Pittsburgh2008TV Movie documentary producer
A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway2008TV Movie documentary producer
A Cemetery Special2005TV Movie documentary producer
A Program About Unusual Buildings & Other Roadside Stuff2004TV Movie documentary producer
Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor2004TV Movie documentary producer
A Flea Market Documentary2001TV Movie documentary producer
Great Old Amusement Parks1999TV Movie documentary producer
A Hot Dog Program1999TV Movie documentary producer
Shore Things1996TV Movie producer
An Ice Cream Show1996TV Movie documentary producer
Downtown Pittsburgh1992Documentary producer
Things That Aren't There Anymore1990TV Movie documentary producer
Shag1987Documentary short producer

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Return to Downtown Pittsburgh2016TV Movie documentary
Breakfast Special2010TV Movie documentary
A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway2008TV Movie documentary
A Program About Unusual Buildings & Other Roadside Stuff2004TV Movie documentary writer
Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor2004TV Movie documentary
Sandwiches That You Will Like2002TV Movie documentary
A Flea Market Documentary2001TV Movie documentary
Great Old Amusement Parks1999TV Movie documentary
A Hot Dog Program1999TV Movie documentary
Downtown Pittsburgh1992Documentary
Things That Aren't There Anymore1990TV Movie documentary
Shag1987Documentary short

Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Return to Downtown Pittsburgh2016TV Movie documentary
Invented, Engineered & Pioneered in Pittsburgh2008TV Movie documentary
Great Old Amusement Parks1999TV Movie documentary
A Hot Dog Program1999TV Movie documentary uncredited
An Ice Cream Show1996TV Movie documentary
Downtown Pittsburgh1992Documentary

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Letter Die: A Gamut Sibling Mystery2012ShortRicky the Rat
Fortunex2010ShortBusiness Investor

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Teenage Graffiti1977production assistant

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Breakfast Special2010TV Movie documentaryNarrator (voice)
A Cemetery Special2005TV Movie documentaryNarrator (voice)
A Program About Unusual Buildings & Other Roadside Stuff2004TV Movie documentaryNarrator
Sandwiches That You Will Like2002TV Movie documentaryNarrator
A Flea Market Documentary2001TV Movie documentaryNarrator
Great Old Amusement Parks1999TV Movie documentaryNarrator
Charlie Rose1999TV SeriesHimself - Guest
A Hot Dog Program1999TV Movie documentaryNarrator
An Ice Cream Show1996TV Movie documentaryNarrator
Downtown Pittsburgh1992DocumentaryNarrator
Things That Aren't There Anymore1990TV Movie documentaryHimself - Narrator
Kennywood Memories1988DocumentaryNarrator

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2004Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Nonfiction SpecialFred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor (2004)
2004Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing for Nonfiction ProgrammingFred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor (2004)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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