Virgil Vogel papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2317

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of American television and film director and film editor Virgil Vogel (1919-1996). Materials include scripts, photographs, awards, production signs, production information, and a single brick. Vogel directed a number of crime dramas for television and science fiction films from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1940s-1990s

Creator

Vogel, Virgil W., 1919-1996 (Person)

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Virgil Vogel (1919-1996) was an American television and film director and film editor. He first worked for Universal Pictures, editing films, inlcuding "Mystery Submarine" (1950), "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951), "The Man from the Alamo" (1953) and "Touch of Evil" (1958). Vogel moved onto directing, starting with "The Mole People" (1956). He directed a number of television series including "Wagon Train," "Bonanza," "The Big Valley," "A Man Called Hawk," "Mission: Impossible," "The White Shadow," "Centennial," "Knight Rider," "Magnum, P.I.," and "Miami Vice."