CSF's Emmy Award Winning Video Production Team
Robert Bagley
Executive Producer - Production Executive - Producer - Director
As a producer, director and Senior Vice President for Trans World International, the production arm of International Management Group, Bob Bagley has created and overseen production budgets, totaling in excess of 150 million dollars. Over the past thirty years, he has produced over 100 segments, staged events and competitions for ABC's "Wide World of Sports", NBC's "SportsWorld", "CBS Sport Spectacular", ESPN, USA Network and national syndication.
When entrepreneur John Delorean set out to create a new automobile, based on a new design concept, he chose Bob to create a presentation film, which was subsequently used to raise over 200 million dollars in development funds for his enterprise.
Bob joined TWI in 1976 as a producer and cinematographer and rose to the position of Senior Vice President in charge of U.S. Production. Here he produced or oversaw the production of a variety of programs, including: The Jeep SuperStars, Super Teams, Battle of the Network Stars, Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes, Worlds Strongest Men, Discover Card Stars on Ice, The Lipton International Tennis Championships, The NutraSweet World Professional Figure Skating Championships, The Cable Ace Awards, Portrait of America and many others. He is a co-creator of The American Gladiators and Survival of the Fittest.
Bob was also responsible for the production of the Olympic profile series’ Road to Moscow, Road to Los Angeles, Sarajevo '84, Road to Calgary, Road to Barcelona and Road to Seoul, as well as instructional videos for Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Curtis Strange, Andre Agassi, Dorothy Hamill, Jackie Stewart and Mark McCormack.
Bagley began his career in sports entertainment with Bruce Brown, and was a key member of the production teams that created and produced the acclaimed documentary feature on surfing, entitled The Endless Summer, and the Oscar nominated feature length documentary on motorcycling, On Any Sunday, with Steve McQueen.
Bob has produced and directed national television commercials for United Airlines, Samsonite, Colgate, Cadillac and Penzoil, and utilized his unique action photography skills as a director of photography on numerous television specials featuring Perry Como, Andy Williams, and Flip Wilson, as well as an award-winning documentary on the sport of polo for Rolex. He has also produced television coverage of the grueling Baja 1000 Off-road Race, twice for ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and a George Plimpton Special for David Wolper.
Bob received an Emmy Award as a Cinematographer for his work on the Peggy Fleming Sun Valley ice-skating special and worked as both a producer and cinematographer on the subsequent Peggy Fleming from Europe with Love and Peggy Fleming Visits the Soviet Union specials.
In 1991, he created and produced a series of five one-hour prime time specials for The Fox Television Network entitled ”The Ultimate Challenge”. He also developed a concept for a series of one-hour television programs for Four Point Entertainment entitled Cowboys that was later produced by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.
Over the years Bob has collaborated on a continuing basis with Emmy Award winning director, Sterling Johnson. Together they have produced numerous television programs, which include a one-hour special for PBS entitled The Five Sense Store and network television specials Nutcracker on Ice and Cinderella featuring Olympic Gold Medal winner, Dorothy Hamill. They also created and produced a series of corporate destination videos, and television commercials for a number of exclusive resort communities, including Fisher Island in Miami, Florida, The Bahama Club on Great Exuma in the Bahamas, Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Aspen and Snowmass in Colorado.
Most recently, Bob produced a one-hour High Definition television special in Colorado for i.d.e.a.s @ Disney/MGM Studios. He also headed a special projects team that produced the theatrical promotional release elements for Bobby Jones – Stoke of Genius which included a one-hour High Definition television special for CBS entitled, Remembering the Legend – The Making of Bobby Jones – Stroke of Genius.
Sterling Johnson
Producer - Director - Cinematographer - Editor
My career began in the mailroom at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, California where I worked my way to the position of staff director. I joined Group One Productions in 1967 as a director/cinematographer, where I worked on such television programs as “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In,” “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” and “The Glen Campbell Show.”
Since becoming a free-lance director in 1971, I have directed many television specials, including “The Barbara Walters Specials,” “Perry Como Specials,” “Andy Williams’ Early New England Christmas,” “Crystal,” starring Crystal Gale, and “Glory Hallelujah” for NET Playhouse to name a few. Most of the television shows that I have directed were shot entirely on location with a destination theme.
I have won a number of awards including two Emmy Awards for best direction: “Peggy Fleming in Sun Valley,” and “Dinah Shore in Israel.” “Perry Como’s Christmas in the Holy Land” won a Silver Angel for religious media event of the year.
Some of my recent television credits include “Dorothy Hamill’s Cinderella--Frozen in Time,” “Dorothy Hamill’s Nutcracker on Ice,” and “Mary Hart’s Power in The Public Eye.” My home video credits include, “Portrait of England,” with the music of Wynton Marsalis, and “Portrait of Africa,” for Tapestry Video, and “Winter,” for Windham Hill Records.
I have also directed, photographed and edited destination videos including Fisher Island and Isleworth in Florida, Desert Mountain in Arizona, and The Bahamas Club in The Bahamas.
Recently my attention has been turned to production for my own company, the SnowCreek Consort. Productions include “Clouds of Wood and Stone, The Gamble House,” and “Interludes in the Kingdom of Light.” I have produced a series of scenic DVD’s in Yosemite National Park. “The Seasons” and “Watersongs” features music by Douglas Spotted Eagle, “Lightdances” features the music of Eugene Freisen and “Yosemite, Ascending Rhythm,” featuring world-renown rock climber, Ron Kauk, with music by Dik Darnell.
I directed and edited “Yosemite, The 100 Year Flood, Movement in Tides,” a fund- raising video underwritten by Yosemite Concession Services. As a volunteer effort, I produced the television commercials for the annual Mariposa County Bluegrass Festival. The 1999 commercial won the International Festival and Events Association Pinnacle Award for Best Television Promotion for festivals with a budget under $500,000.
I have finished production on “Return To Balance, A Climber’s Journey” a sequel to “Ascending Rhythm” shot and edited entirely in 1080i high definition. “Return to Balance,” was honored with the “People’s Choice Award” at the “Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City, California. “Return To Balance” was also presented on opening night at “Filmfestival/Graz in Graz, Austria. The film has been released on BluRay Disc and standard DVD. "Return To Balance" began airing as a Pledge Event, in standard definition, on PBS Stations in December 2006. The Program is now being aired in high definition on PBS stations across the country.
I co-produced and directed films for The American Syringomyelia Alliance Project in 2005 and 2006.
I am currently in production on a new series of Yosemite films produced in 1080i high definition. The working title for the films is “Yosemite, There is a Season.” This series will be released on BluRay Disc in 2009 and 2010.
