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George Schaefer (film producer)

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Name
  
George Schaefer

Role
  
Movie producer

Died
  
August 8, 1981


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Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program

Similar People
  
Herman J Mankiewicz, Gregg Toland, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Robert Wise

George Schaefer (November 5, 1888, Brooklyn, New York – August 8, 1981) was a movie producer and once the president of RKO in 1941 when Orson Welles made his classic film Citizen Kane. Schaefer, a top executive at United Artists, was hired as president of RKO in 1938. He was fired from RKO in 1942 because of the controversy surrounding it and Welles' second film The Magnificent Ambersons.

Other films made by RKO during Schaefer's time at the studio include:

  • They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
  • References

    George Schaefer (film producer) Wikipedia