Peter Tewksbury
TV Director
1923 – 2003
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Who was Peter Tewksbury?
Peter Tewksbury was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the "Father Knows Best" TV series, and a pair of Elvis Presley movies. He directed the entire first season of the television situation comedy My Three Sons and also frequently served as a producer and writer for the series. He also created It's a Man's World, and collaborated with J.D. Salinger on a film adaptation of the author's “For Esmé With Love and Squalor,” which was never produced after a casting dispute between the two men.
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- Born
- Mar 21, 1923
Cleveland - Also known as
- Henry Peter Tewksbury
- Henry Tewksbury
- Henry the Cheeseman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Dartmouth College
- Lived in
- Ohio
- Cleveland
- Died
- Feb 20, 2003
Brattleboro
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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