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Love's Unending Legacy DOWNLOAD (pdf) PRODUCTION BIOS ROBERT HALMI JR. (Executive Producer) – Emmy® Award winner Robert Halmi Jr. currently serves as President of RHI Entertainment, LLC (formerly Hallmark Entertainment, LLC). His career as a film producer began in 1980 with “Wilson's Reward,” which garnered numerous awards, including a gold medal at the Houston Film Festival. He has produced more than 100 movies and miniseries for television, including “Dreamkeeper,” “Dinotopia,” “Arabian Nights,” “The 10th Kingdom,” “Cleopatra,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Baby Dance” and “Lonesome Dove,” which earned seven Emmy® Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. Recent Halmi, Jr. “event” productions include “Earthsea,” “Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “Frankenstein,” “Frederick Forsyth’s Icon,” “Supernova,” “Mysterious Island” and “The Poseidon Adventure.” In 1984, at age 26, Halmi Jr. became President of RHI Entertainment Inc. (RHI) a publicly traded entertainment company founded by his father. In 1994, RHI was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. and Halmi Jr. became President and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, the successor to RHI. For over the past decade, Hallmark Entertainment has remained the largest supplier of movies and miniseries in the television industry, garnering more Emmy nominations for television movies than any other production company in the history of television. Under Halmi Jr’s guidance, Hallmark Entertainment produced over 2,000 hours of television programming. These shows received 448 Emmy® nominations and garnered 103 Emmy® Awards. From 1994-2005, Hallmark Entertainment provided four of the top five highest rated US miniseries and movies made for television, including 2004’s highest rated original movie, “Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” Hallmark Entertainment productions have also topped the ratings charts of the major basic cable networks, “Earthsea” for SciFi Channel (their highest rated miniseries in 2005), “Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus” for Hallmark Channel (highest rated in the history of the network at the time), and most recently Lifetime television with “Human Trafficking,” the highest rated miniseries on basic cable for 2005. In 1995, Halmi Jr. was instrumental in forming Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which owns and operates pay television channels across the globe dedicated to high quality, broad appeal, entertainment programming. In 2000, Crown Media went public on the Nasdaq® stock exchange. To date, Crown Media has launched channels in more than 122 countries and in 25 languages. In January 2006, Halmi Jr. along with members of senior management and affiliates Kelso & Company, a private investment firm, acquired all the ownership interest in Hallmark Entertainment, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards) and re-launched the company as RHI Entertainment, LLC. # # # LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) – Larry Levinson has extensive credits as an executive producer, including the telefilm "Johnson County War" and blockbuster miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo" and "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk." His Hallmark Channel productions include "The Last Cowboy," “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “Mystery Woman,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Reading Room,” “Our House,” “Where There’s A Will,” “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Love’s Abiding Joy,” “Out of the Woods,” “Thicker Than Water,” “Jane Doe,” “Mystery Woman,” “McBride” and “Murder 101.” Levinson also executive produced "Mark Twain's Roughing It," "Everything That Rises" with Dennis Quaid, "Rough Riders" with Tom Berenger, and a series of "Hard Time" telefilms starring Burt Reynolds as Detective Logan McQueen. Previously, Levinson was supervising producer for the Kenny Rogers' telefilms "MacShayne: The Final Roll of the Dice" and "MacShayne: Winner Takes All." He was also an executive producer on Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie ever, “The Christmas Card.” ### NICK LOMBARDO (Executive Producer) – Nick Lombardo is currently Vice President, Production, Alpine Medien. His television credits include executive producing “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” which received five Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Movie for Television; and co-producing the mini-series “Gettysburg.” He has been a co-executive producer on virtually all Hallmark Channel Original movies and movie events since 2002. From 1989 to 1998, Lombardo was Vice President, then Senior Vice President, Production, for Turner Network Television. From 1983 to 1989, he was with The Polson Company and produced the network telefilms “Go Toward the Light,” “Baby Girl Scott,” “In the Interest of Tracy” and “Not My Kid.” From 1979 to 1984, Lombardo was staff associate producer of “The Barbara Walters Specials.” ### MARK GRIFFITHS (Director) – Mark Griffiths wrote and directed the feature films “Running Hot,” “Hardbodies” and “Hardbodies 2”, and has directed both television and feature films. As a director, his feature film credits include “Heroes Stand Alone,” “A Cry in the Wild,” “Tactical Assault” and “Behind Enemy Lines.” In addition, he has directed numerous made for television movies, including “Safe Harbor,” “Our House,” “McBride: Requiem,” “What I Did for Love,” “Jane Doe: The Wrong Face,” “Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend,” “Going the Distance,” “The Miracle of the Cards,” “Au Pair (I and II)” and “The Cowboy and the Movie Star.” # # # PAMELA WALLACE (Writer) – Pamela Wallace won an Academy® Award for co-writing the film “Witness,” starring Harrison Ford. She’s written or co-written several telefilms, including the Hallmark Channel Original Movie’s “Straight From the Heart,” Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus” and “Meet the Santas,” as well as a segment of the award-winning “If These Walls Could Talk,” “Borrowed Hearts” and “A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story.” Wallace has also published more than 25 novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages, and won several awards. # # # JANETTE OKE (Novelist, Love’s Abiding Joy) – Janette Oke’s first novel, Love Comes Softly, garnered such acclaim that she wrote seven sequels. Born during the Great Depression to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife, Oke is considered one of the preeminent and prolific authors of her genre with 75 novels to her credit and sales topping 20 million copies. Among the awards Oke has received are the 1992 President's Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, the Christy Award of Excellence and the Gold Medallion Award. -- HALLMARK CHANNEL --
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