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Caliandro, 'Catch the Spirit'
producer, dies suddenly

                 by United Methodist News Service

     The Rev. Bruno L. Caliandro, 65, United Methodist minister,
educator, award winning television producer and United Methodist
Communications (UMCom) staff member, died suddenly June 11.
     Caliandro produced and directed "Catch the Spirit," the
denomination's award-winning, 30-minute, weekly television program
for UMCom from 1985-1988.
     Following his work with "Catch the Spirit," he was named
UMCom's director of new program development. In that position, he
produced and directed the interfaith celebration of Nelson
Mandela's New York visit at Riverside Church for the Vision
Interfaith Satellite Network, now the Faith and Values Channel.
     As director of new program development, Caliandro also was
instrumental in the production of two Christmas specials from
Detroit's Metropolitan United Methodist Church for CBS television.
He has been involved in developing and producing "Perspectives:
Faith in Our Times," "Scriptures Alive" and "the Frugal Gourmet
Keeps the Feast" for broadcast on the Faith and Values Channel. 
He developed the "Why We Care" series for UMCom and the United
Methodist Board of Global Ministries.
     Prior to "Catch the Spirit," he produced the animated
children's Christmas special "The Fourth King" on NBC and the
Emmy-winning "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't" for ABC. 
     Caliandro had a 12-year association with the American
Broadcasting Company as a consultant. He helped develop the award-
winning ABC "After School Specials" and two Saturday-morning
programs "Animals, Animals, Animals" and "Kids Are People Too."
     As a film-maker, his "Reading Incentives" series was
distributed by McGraw-Hill and featured personalities such as Bill
Cosby, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Shirley MacLaine and Harry
Belefonte.  Caliandro also was producer/director with the
television ministry of Marble Collegiate Church in New York and
the radio series "Guideposts Presents Norman Vincent Peale."
     A clergy member of the New York Annual Conference, he served
as pastor of churches in Maine, Ohio and New York.  He was a
chaplain in the U.S. Air Force retiring with the rank of brigadier
general. 
     He studied at University of Maine, Boston University School
of Theology and United States Air Force Air University with
degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and Union Theological
Seminary.
     Caliandro was born in Portland, Me., July 24, 1931.  He is
survived by his wife Deborah and two grown children by an earlier
marriage -- Thomas Vail of Washington, D.C., and Ann Martha of
Portland, Me.
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