GEORGE SCHAEFER - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 310478
Price: $120.00
GEORGE SCHAEFER
The actor and television producer signs a card wishing "good
luck!"
Autograph sentiment signed: "Good luck!/George Schaefer", in
black ink, 5x3. George Louis Schaefer (1920-1997), who won (with
Maurice Evans) the 1974 Tony Award as Best Producer (Dramatic) for The
Teahouse of the August Moon, won Best Director Emmy Awards for
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1959 and 1965), Macbeth (1960) and the
made-for-TV movies, Elizabeth the Queen (1968) and A War of
Children (1972). He was nominated for Emmys in the category in 1958,
1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 (four nominations), 1967, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1984 and
1986. Also tied with TV director James Burrows for most Director Guild of
America Award nominations, Schaefer served as President of the DGA
from 1979-1981. Schaefer, who got his start in the military during WWII,
directing about 50 plays for the troops, would direct the first live
TV productions of Hamlet and Richard II. He also directed a
handful of feature films, including Pendulum (1969), Doctors'
Wives (1970) and Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974), in addition to his
long list of TV episodes and features, from 1954's Richard II to
Harvey, which aired in 1998, the year after the death of Schaefer. Pencil
note (unknown hand) on verso. Fine condition.
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