GEORGE SCHAEFER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 206654

GEORGE SCHAEFER
Photograph of the Broadway and television producer.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "For William Stanhope/Best wishes,/George Schaefer". B/w, 8x10. 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) and Macbeth (1960) and the made-for-TV movies, Elizabeth the Queen (1968) and A War of Children (1972), and 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, who was also a prolific TV producer. Lightly creased at blank margins and corners. Minor surface creases (most not evident head on). Overall, fine condition.