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Franklin James Schaffner (
May 30,
1920-
July 2,
1989) was an
Academy Award-winning
American film director.
The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in
Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the
United States and graduated from
Franklin and Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama. He studied law at
Columbia University in
New York City but his education was interrupted by service with the
United States Navy in
World War II during which he served with American
amphibious forces in
Europe and
North Africa. In the latter stages of the war he was sent to the
Pacific Far East to serve with the
United States Office for Strategic Services.
Returning home after the war, he found work in the television industry with
March of Time and then joined the
CBS network. He won directing
Emmys for his work on the original 1954
CBS teleplay,
12 Angry Men. Schaffner earned two more Emmy awards for his work on the 1955 TV adaptation of the
Broadway play,
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, shown on the anthology series
Ford Star Jubilee. He won his fourth Emmy Award for his work on the series,
The Defenders.
In 1960, he directed
Allen Drury's
stage play Advise and Consent. His first
Hollywood motion picture was praised and he directed the influential hit
Planet of the Apes. His next film,
Patton was a major success for which he won the
Academy Award for Directing and the
Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
Jerry Goldsmith composed the
scores for a number of his later films, including
Planet of the Apes,
Papillon and
The Boys from Brazil.
Schaffner married Helen Jane Gilchrist in 1948. The couple had two children.
Schaffner was elected President of the Directors Guild of America in 1987.
Schaffner died on
July 2,
1989 at the age of 69. He was released 10 days before his death from a hospital where he was being treated for lung cancer. Obituaries stated he died of cancer.
Critical perception
Screenwriter William Goldman identified Schaffner in 1981 as being one of the three best directors (then living) at handling 'scope' (epicness) in films. The other two were
David Lean and
Richard Attenborough.
Filmography
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