Franklin James Schaffner (1920 to 1989) was an American director whose career moved from live television drama into major studio filmmaking. He began in television, winning multiple Emmy Awards for directing anthology series such as Studio One and The Defenders, before his feature film breakthrough. In film he won the Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970) and directed a run of large-scale science fiction and historical films including Planet of the Apes (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Screenwriter William Goldman named him among the finest directors then working at handling large-scale epic filmmaking. Schaffner served as president of the Directors Guild of America from 1987 until his death in 1989.
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Franklin James Schaffner (1920-1989) was a prominent American director
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He earned the Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970)
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Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a
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John Brahm James B. Clark Fielder Cook Vincent J. Donehue John Frankenheimer David Greene George Roy Hill Arthur Hiller Herbert Hirschman Buzz Kulik Delbert Mann Burgess Meredith Robert Mulligan James Neilson Ralph Nelson Arthur Penn David Lowell Rich Oscar Rudolph Boris Sagal Franklin J. Schaffner Alex Segal Stewart Stern Robert Stevens David Swift Charles Marquis Warren Paul Wendkos
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