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| Wes Kenney |
Initially wanting to become an actor, H. Wesley Kenney, commonly credited as Wes Kenney, attended Carnegie Mellon University on the G.I. Bill to study drama where he became interested in the technical side of production. Out of college he was hired by the DuMont Television Network, one of the major TV networks in the early 1950s. At DuMont, Kenney directed up to twelve different broadcasts each day, ranging in all different genres from dramas to sports to children’s programming. Among the series he directed at DuMont, most of them live and with multiple cameras, include Morning Chapel, Life Is Worth Living, Magic Cottage, Funny Bunny, Rocky King, Detective and Night Beat, which was Mike Wallace’s first show as an interviewer. After DuMont dissolved in 1956, Kenney continued to work for other networks, helming episodes of the series Play of the Week, Your First Impression and My Favorite Martian, as well as the television movies The Working Mother (1961) and Seven Times Monday (1962).