Richard Alan Shapiro
1Filmography
Born into a Jewish family with Sephardic roots in Greece and Turkey, Richard Allen Shapiro and his wife Esther June Shapiro built a television legacy through their Shapiro Film Corporation. Their breakthrough came with the 1981 prime-time soap Dynasty, conceived as a response to the 1979 oil crisis and positioned by ABC to rival Dallas; the series climbed to the top of the ratings in the 1984-85 s…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources