Franklin J. Schaffner Collection (F&M 1942)

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Scope and Content

Biographical Sketch

After the war, Mr. Schaffner returned to New York City where he worked for a world peace organization, which led to a job as an assistant director for the documentary film series, "The March of Time." He then accepted a position as director in the news and public affairs department of CBS television news. Early news assignments included directing television coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. Subsequently, Mr. Schaffner began directing theatrical productions for television and he eventually receiving several Emmy Awards, "Twelve Angry Men" (1954), "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1955), and the first six episodes of "The Defenders" (1961), and a Trustee's Emmy and Peabody Award for "A Tour of the White House" (1962). (see following Videography).

In 1960, Mr. Schaffner directed the Broadway production of "Advise and Consent," for which he earned Best Director recognition and shortly there after he moved to California to direct films.

Mr. Schaffner is probably best known as the director of "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "Patton" (1970), for which he received an Academy Award for best director, and "Papillon" (1973). [see Filmography].

Mr. Schaffner died in July 1989 at the age of 69 years.

Arrangement

Series I. Biographical Material

Series II. Television scripts (1949-1967)

Series III. Theater productions (1960)

Series IV. Films and film - related materials (1961 - 1989)

Series V. Unproduced Projects

Series VI. Audio-visual materials

Franklin J. Schaffner Videography

STUDIO ONE (CBS) 1949: The Rival Dummy; Mrs. Moonlight; Two Sharp Knives; At Mrs. Beam's; Jane Eyre; The Inner Light. 1950: Beyond Reason;

The Rockingham Tea Set; The Loud Red Patrick; The Wisdom Tooth; The Dreams of Jasper Hornby; The Survivors; The Scarlet Letter; Torrents of Spring; Miracle in the Rain; The Ambassadors; The Man Who Had Influence; My Granny Van. 1951: The Little Black Bag; Mighty Like a Rogue; Macbeth; The Hero; The King in Yellow; Mutiny on the Nicolette; The Innocence of Pastor Muller; The Paris Feeling. 1952: Waterfront Boss; Burden of Guilt; Rangoon Run; Letter from an Unknown Woman; Wings of the Dove; Miss Hargreaves; Pontius Pilate; Lily, the Queen of the Movies; Treasure Island; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Captain-General of the Armies; International Incident; The Kill; The Doctor's Wife; The Great Conspiracy; The Astonishing Mr. Glencannon; The Formula; The Hospital; The Nativity. 1953: Black Rain; Signal Thirty-Two; Mark of Cain; The Walsh Girls; My Beloved Husband; A Breath of Air; At Midnight on the 31st of March; The Magic Lantern; Along Came a Spider; King Coffin; Fly with the Hawk; Conflict; Hound-Dog Man; Music and Mrs. Pratt; Another Caesar; Camille; Buffalo Bill Is Dead; Dry Run; Cinderella '53. 1954: Runaway; A Criminal Design; Herman Came by Bomber; Dark Possession; Side Street; Thunder on Sycamore Street; Paul's Apartment; Jack Sparling; Forty-Six; Romney; Fear Is No Stranger; A Man and Two Gods; The Strike; Twelve Angry Men; Prelude to Murder; The Boy Who Changed the World; The Man Who Owned the Town; Let Me Go, Lover; The Deserter; 12:30 A.M.; The Cuckoo in Spring. 1955: Grandma Rolled Her Own; It Might Happen Tomorrow; A Stranger May Die; The Eddie Chapman Story; Millions of Georges; Dominique; Passage at Arms; Strange Companion; Operation Home; The Incredible World of Horace Ford; Three Empty Rooms; A Most Contagious Game; Shakedown Cruise; The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff; Miracle at Potter's Farm.

1956: The Talented Mr. Ripley; My Son, Johnny; Circle of Guilt; Flower of Pride; A Tale of St. Emergency; The Arena; The Drop of a Hat; Family Protection.

FORD THEATRE (CBS) 1950: The Traitor; The Married Look; The Marble Faun; Angel Street; Heart of Darkness; The Whiteheaded Boy; Another Darling; Alice in Wonderland; Cause for Suspicion. 1951: Final Copy; Spring Again; The Golden Mouth; The Ghost Patrol; Ticket to Oblivion; The Touchstone; Dead on the Vine; Peter Ibbetson; Three in a Room; Night Over London.

PERSON TO PERSON (CBS) (incomplete): John F. Kennedy / William Dean (1953); George Meany / Ethel Waters (1954); Eleanor Roosevelt (1954); Groucho Marx / James P. Mitchell (1954); Clarence Pickett/ / Marlon Brando (1954); Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (1954); Milton Greene / Thomas Beecham (1955); Amy Vanderbilt / Ernie Kovacs (1955); Noel Coward (1956); Phil Silvers (1955); Frank Sinatra (1956); Harpo Marx (1958); Agnes De Mille / Russel Crouse (1958); Fidel Castro (1959).

FORD STARTIME (NBC) 1959: The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks.

THE KAISER ALUMINUM HOUR (NBC) 1956: The Army Game; Roar of the Lion; Antigone; Angel's Ransom; The Rag Jungle. 1957: So Short a Season.

PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE (NBC) 1957: The Great Sebastians.

PLAYHOUSE 90 (CBS) 1957: The Playroom; The Clouded Image; The Panic Button; For I Have Loved Strangers. 1958: The Eighty-Yard Run; Point of No Return; The Right Hand Man; Nightmare at Ground Zero; The Innocent Sleep; The Great Gatsby; Word From a Sealed-Off Box; Seven Aganst the Wall. 1959: The Velvet Alley; The Raider; In Lonely Expectation; Dark December; The Rank and File; The Silver Whistle. 1960: The Cruel Day.

THE DEFENDERS (CBS) 1961: Killer Instinct; The Boy Between; The Attack; Gideon's Follies. 1962: The Tarnished Cross; Reunion With Death.

DuPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC) 1962: The World's Greatest Robbery. 1963: Windfall; Two Faces of Treason; The Shark; The Legend of Lylah Clare. 1964: Jeremy Rabbitt; The Secret Avenger; Don't Go Upstairs; More, More, More, More; Ambassador at Large.

Additional shows: The Good Years (1962, CBS); A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy (1962, CBS); John F. Kennedy, May 29, 1964 (1964, CBS); ABC Stage '67 (1967, ABC).

Franklin J. Schaffner Filmography