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George Schaefer

Television and Broadway director of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

George Schaefer (1920–1997) was an American director of television and Broadway theatre, active from the 1950s to the 1990s. In the golden age of television he directed many live adaptations of Broadway plays for NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame, starting with his own staging of Hamlet with Maurice Evans.

Quick Facts

Birth name
George Louis Schaefer
Born
16 December 1920
Birthplace
Wallingford, Connecticut, US
Died
10 September 1997
Place of death
Los Angeles, California, US

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Background

He won a Tony Award in 1953 for The Teahouse of the August Moon, which he co-produced with Evans, and five Emmy Awards for his television work. No Twilight Zone credit is recorded for him.

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