Hollywood Priest Film to Air on PBS on Christmas Day - True Story of Fr. Ellwood “Bud” Kieser

Celebrate the joy of Christmas with Hollywood Priest airing on PBS World on Christmas Day

​5 am ET | 2 am PT and 11 am ET | 8 am PT

See A-listers Bob Newhart, Marion Ross, John Amos, Tim Matheson, Martin Sheen and other Hollywood greats in the inspiring documentary when it airs on Christmas day!

About Hollywood Priest:

Hollywood Priest is an entertaining, provocative and nostalgic, award-winning documentary about a priest who found himself in a different field of ministry: the entertainment industry. The film is narrated by George Newbern (Scandal, Father of the Bride) and features interviews with Hollywood stars: Bob Newhart (Elf, Newhart), Martin Sheen (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now), Marion Ross (Happy Days), John Amos (Roots, Good Times), and Tim Matheson (Fletch, Animal House) to name a few.

The movie follows Fr. Ellwood “Bud” Kieser, a Paulist priest who arrived in Los Angeles in 1957. In the 1960s and 70s, Fr. Bud was able to evangelize the culture through the national television series Insight, a show that featured the biggest stars in Hollywood. But in 1980 when he encountered famine-stricken Africa through a trip with Catholic Relief Services, his ministry-and his life-would take a dramatic turn. The movie does not shy away from the struggles and temptations in Fr. Bud’s life, which makes him real and relatable and someone to encourage the people of the Church today to be a missionary at the center of public influence.

As the founder of Paulist Productions, Fr. Kieser produced the powerful feature films Romero (1989) about Archbishop Óscar Romero and Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996).

Source: AWE