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The basics
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Intro
American film producer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
5 November 1888
Death:
8 August 1981
The details
Biography
Introduction
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)
Cultural references
Schaefer was played by Roy Scheider in RKO 281, a 1999 TV movie of the events surrounding the Citizen Kane controversy.