Lee Mendelson
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Born in San Francisco and raised in San Mateo, Mendelson earned an English degree from Stanford in 1954 before serving three years as a lieutenant in the Air Force and briefly working for his father’s produce business. He entered television in 1961 creating public-service spots for KPIX-TV, where a discovery of historic fair footage led to his first documentary, The Innocent Fair, and a Peabody-wi…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources