George Schaefer (director)

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George Schaefer
Born
George Louis Schaefer

(1920-12-16)December 16, 1920
Wallingford, Connecticut, US
DiedSeptember 10, 1997(1997-09-10) (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California, US

George Louis Schaefer (December 16, 1920 – September 10, 1997) was an American director of television and Broadway theatre, who was active from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Life and career

Schaefer was born in

Tony Award for his production of The Teahouse of the August Moon
which he co-produced with Evans.

During the

theatrical films
, but to limited success.

In February 1962, actors who had worked with Schaefer, including Ed Wynn, Ethel Griffies and Boris Karloff, participated in a tribute to him on the late-night talk show PM East/PM West that was syndicated by Group W Productions to Westinghouse-owned television stations in Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and San Francisco, as well as to other stations in Washington D.C., New York, and Los Angeles.[2]

This telecast holds the distinction of being the only episode of PM East/PM West, which aired five nights a week for more than a year, to survive in its entirety. A videocassette of the 1962 telecast is available for viewing at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3]

PM East/PM West was never accessible in

American South, the Southwestern United States, the Pacific Northwest or in the states of Florida or Texas
.

From 1979 to 1981, George Schaefer was president of the

UCLA School of Theater Film and Television
where he stayed until 1991.

During the 1980s and 1990s Schaefer served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute. Schaefer also was the Honorary Chairperson of the Institute for a one-year term.[4][5]

In 1996, he released his autobiography From Live to Tape to Film: 60 Years of Inconspicuous Directing.[6]

Schaefer continued directing

TV movies until his death in 1997. His final TV movie was an adaptation of Harvey. He was survived by his wife, Mildred Trares (1931-2020), whom he had married in 1954.[7]

Selected television work

Selected Broadway theatre productions

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "George Schaefer Biography (1920-1997)". filmreference.com.
  2. ISBN 9780316377942
    . PM East/PM West.
  3. ^ UCLA catalog known as Melvyl has a listing for the only surviving telecast of PM East/PM West.
  4. ^ National Student Film Institute/L.A: The Sixteenth Annual Los Angeles Student Film Festival. The Directors Guild Theatre. June 10, 1994. pp. 10–11.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Los Angeles Student Film Institute: 13th Annual Student Film Festival. The Directors Guild Theatre. June 7, 1991. p. 3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. OCLC 36145736
    .
  7. ^ Mildred Trares Schaefer

Further reading

External links

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