From 1949-1951, Ivan played the title character in the radio program, "Bobby Benson" on the Mutual network. The cast also included a young Don Knotts in the part of the old geezer, Windy Wales. He was Portia's son on Portia Faces Life. Ivan was also Perry Como's son on radio and television.
Ivan has been a founding member of American Radio Theater since it began in 2005. He has been a board member, actor and director at ART.
Ivan Cury was a professor in the Communication Department of California State University, Los Angeles, where he has taught for fifteen years. He was a producer and director of commercials, sitcoms, variety shows, documentaries, and daytime dramas such as The Young and the Restless. He served as a judge for the Emmy's ACE and for the DGA awards. Before joining the department at Cal State, he taught for eleven years in the MPTV department at UCLA.
Prof. Cury wrote 2 books:
**TV Commercials: How to Make Them or How Big is the Boat?
**Directing and Producing for Television: A Format Approach-4 editions
Academic rank: Professor
Year appointed: 1990 Year retired: 2010
UCLA 1980 1989
California State University, Los Angeles 1990 2010
Courses taught:
- Mostly multiple camera television production classes at all levels
- Directing for Television
- Documentary production
- Staff Producer/Director NET-NY: Soul!
- Staff Producer/Director CBS-NY - Camera Three: Julliard String Quartet
- Free-lance Director - The Young & the Restless, Violence in America, Actor's Choice, The Obies, Aqui y Ahora, and others
Citations of Selected Publications, Presentations and/or Creative Activities:
- Directing & Producing for Television (4 editions)
- TV Commercials: How to Make Them
- Academy of Television Arts & Sciences journal
Filmography:
Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday
(1980 TV documentary)
Up and Coming (1979 TV series)
Barbi Doll for Christmas (1978 TV movie)
(as Ivan Curry)
The Big Event (1976 TV series)
The Young and the Restless (1973 TV series)
The Doctors (1963 TV series)
