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American film and tv director
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Male
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Birth:
21 March 1923(Cleveland, USA)
Death:
20 February 2003(Brattleboro, USA)
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Biography
Introduction
Peter Tewksbury (March 21, 1923 – February 20, 2003) was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the Father Knows Best TV series (131 episodes, 1954–1960), 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, a TV series that aired from September 1962 to January 1963, 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.
Film Credits
- Sunday in New York (1963)
- Emil and the Detectives (1964)
- Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967)
- Stay Away, Joe (1968)
- The Trouble with Girls (And How To Get Into It) (1969)