George Schaefer

George Schaefer

1920-12-16 Wallingford, Connecticut, USA 74 Credits

Biography

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. Schaefer was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, and lived in Oak Park, Illinois for much of his boyhood and young adulthood. He was the son of Elsie (née Otterbein) and Louis Schaefer, who worked in sales. Schaefer studied stage directing at the Yale School of Drama. He began his directing career while serving in the U.S. Army Spe...

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Harvey

Harvey

1996

Director

4.2
Directing

An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall ...

Beverly Hills Cop III

Beverly Hills Cop III

1994

as Mike

5.9
Acting

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returnin...

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs

1992

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.

Laura Lansing Slept Here

Laura Lansing Slept Here

1988

Producer, Director

5.7
Producing Directing

With a glittering cast that includes Katharine Hepburn and Karen Austin in lead roles, Laura Lansing Slept Here is a humorous family movie. Hepburn pl...

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

1986

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

Stone Pillow

Stone Pillow

1985

Director

6.7
Directing

A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to o...

Answers

Answers

1985

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway...

Children in the Crossfire

Children in the Crossfire

1984

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" fou...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

1983

Director, Producer

5.2
Directing Producing

The Herdmans – Gladys, Claude, Imogene, Leroy, Ollie and Ralph – are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bu...

Right of Way

Right of Way

1983

Director

7.3
Directing

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for years, an...

The Deadly Game

The Deadly Game

1982

Director

7.2
Directing

Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party,...

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

1982

Director, Producer

8.0
Directing Producing

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

People vs. Jean Harris

People vs. Jean Harris

1981

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the refined private school headmistress who was convi...

The Bunker

The Bunker

1981

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...

Barry Manilow: One Voice

1980

Director

Directing

A televised concert special featuring Barry Manilow and special guest star Dionne Warwick.

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

1979

Director

6.5
Directing

In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film t...

Who'll Save Our Children?

Who'll Save Our Children?

1978

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable c...

First, You Cry

First, You Cry

1978

Director

Directing

The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her...

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

1978

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann,...

The Second Barry Manilow Special

The Second Barry Manilow Special

1978

Director

Directing

Barry's second TV special aired on ABC in 1978.

The Girl Called Hatter Fox

The Girl Called Hatter Fox

1977

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

A doctor must battle against superstition and prejudice to try to save a young Indian girl, who has been sent to a state reform school as an incorrigi...

Our Town

Our Town

1977

Director, Producer

9.0
Directing Producing

3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

Amelia Earhart

1976

Director

Directing

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in ...

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

1976

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.

The Land of Hope

1976

Director

Directing

Chronicles the experiences of four immigrant families as they experience the Lower East Side of New York during the early twentieth century.

In This House of Brede

In This House of Brede

1975

Director

6.0
Directing

Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in shoc...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

1974

Director

4.6
Directing

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.

A Time For Love

A Time For Love

1973

Director

Directing

Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and roma...

Once Upon a Scoundrel

Once Upon a Scoundrel

1973

Director

5.0
Directing

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasi...

A War of Children

A War of Children

1972

Director

7.2
Directing

A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in...

Gideon

Gideon

1971

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.

Doctors' Wives

Doctors' Wives

1971

Director

5.0
Directing

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and ...

Generation

Generation

1969

Director

4.5
Directing

Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.

The File on Devlin

The File on Devlin

1969

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian bo...

Pendulum

Pendulum

1969

Director

5.5
Directing

On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in ...

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

1968

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks...

Elizabeth the Queen

Elizabeth the Queen

1968

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is he...

Saint Joan

1967

Director

Directing

A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her ...

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1967

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning...

Soldier in Love

Soldier in Love

1967

Director

Directing

The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

1966

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to condu...

Barefoot in Athens

1966

Director

6.3
Directing

The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

1965

Director, Producer

8.0
Directing Producing

A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal min...

Eagle in a Cage

1965

Director

Directing

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

The Holy Terror

The Holy Terror

1965

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the...

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks

1964

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associa...

Little Moon of Alban

Little Moon of Alban

1964

Director

Directing

Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WWI she finds herself caring for wh...

Macbeth

Macbeth

1964

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a differ...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964

Director, Producer

8.0
Directing Producing

The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced from the 1830s when he was a struggling backwoods lawyer to winning the Presidency in 1860.

A Cry of Angels

A Cry of Angels

1963

Director

Directing

Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," came to be written in the English language.

The Patriots

1963

Director

Directing

Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello. George Washington however, has a favor to ask of him...

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

1963

Director

7.0
Directing

The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

1963

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?

Arsenic & Old Lace

Arsenic & Old Lace

1962

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit

Victoria Regina

Victoria Regina

1961

Director

Directing

1961 adaptation of "Victoria Regina".

Give Us Barabbas!

1961

Director

Directing

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

1960

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.

The Tempest

The Tempest

1960

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the isla...

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

1959

Director, Producer

10.0
Directing Producing

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

Winterset

1959

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t...

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis

1959

Director

5.0
Directing

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi

1958

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story.

Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate

1958

Producer, Director

8.7
Producing Directing

Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, a pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The T...

Johnny Belinda

1958

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Little Moon of Alban

Little Moon of Alban

1958

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WW I she finds herself caring for w...

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

1958

Director

Directing

In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating ra...

On Borrowed Time

1957

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation?

The Yeomen of the Guard

The Yeomen of the Guard

1957

Director

Directing

A teleplay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's most serious opera presented on Hallmark Hall of Fame.

The Lark

1957

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.

The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes

1956

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1955

Director

4.5
Directing

A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus

1955

Director, Adaptation

7.3
Directing

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus,...

Macbeth

Macbeth

1954

Director

7.0
Directing

Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by amb...

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

1945

Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...