Studs Terkel was born on May 16, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA as Louis Terkel. He was an actor, known for Anthem (1997), Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) and Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997). He was married to Ida Goldberg. He died on October 31, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.