George Lefferts
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George Lefferts is a writer, producer, playwright, poet, and director of television
drama
s, motion pictures, radio
dramas, and socially conscious documentaries. He is a former columnist
for The New York Observer' and twice winner of First Place, the New England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column in America [1983, 1984].
His original plays and films for TV have won six Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. [See details in biography] He was Executive Producer/Writer of the Smithsonian Institution Specials for David Wolper Productions, an Executive Producer for Time Life, NBC, ABC and CBS. and a frequent writer (adaptations of short stories and original scripts) for the science fiction
radio programs Dimension X
and X Minus One
. He wrote and produced the anti-agist film "The Living End," of which Variety wrote "the writing by George Lefferts was so pure it was well nigh perfect." With Alfred Hitchcock and William Shatner he created and wrote "Tactic" the first television program to openly deal with Cancer. He also created, produced and wrote "NBC Specials for Women" a groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring Anthropologist Margaret Mead, which won the Emmy Award [1967] and the Golden Globe Award [1968] http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logd1013.htm http://otrsite.com/logs/logx10Specialks,
Currently,on March 21, 2011 his original play "The Loneliness of the Armadillo" was presented by the Banyan Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
Lefferts also created the series and served as a scriptwriter for the Frank Sinatra
radio drama, Rocky Fortune
, in 1953 and 1954 and wrote the NBC documentary "Bravo, Picasso!" featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
In 1975, he was a producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series, Ryan's Hope
. He was executive producer/writer of the ABC
medical drama
, Breaking Point, which aired during the 1963-1964 television season, episodes directed by Sydney Pollack and featuring Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, and Lillian Gish.
He is the co-creator and writer of Family Album, U.S.A.
"a soap opera designed to teach English as a Second Language, distributed by MacMillan Publishers in 58 countries.
He has taught screenwriting at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Universities.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
s, motion pictures, radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
dramas, and socially conscious documentaries. He is a former columnist
Columnist
A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....
for The New York Observer' and twice winner of First Place, the New England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column in America [1983, 1984].
His original plays and films for TV have won six Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. [See details in biography] He was Executive Producer/Writer of the Smithsonian Institution Specials for David Wolper Productions, an Executive Producer for Time Life, NBC, ABC and CBS. and a frequent writer (adaptations of short stories and original scripts) for the science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
radio programs Dimension X
Dimension X
Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded...
and X Minus One
X Minus One
X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.-Overview:...
. He wrote and produced the anti-agist film "The Living End," of which Variety wrote "the writing by George Lefferts was so pure it was well nigh perfect." With Alfred Hitchcock and William Shatner he created and wrote "Tactic" the first television program to openly deal with Cancer. He also created, produced and wrote "NBC Specials for Women" a groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring Anthropologist Margaret Mead, which won the Emmy Award [1967] and the Golden Globe Award [1968] http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logd1013.htm http://otrsite.com/logs/logx10Specialks,
Currently,on March 21, 2011 his original play "The Loneliness of the Armadillo" was presented by the Banyan Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
Lefferts also created the series and served as a scriptwriter for the Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
radio drama, Rocky Fortune
Rocky Fortune
Rocky Fortune was the title of an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953 . The series ended its run in March 1954 after 25 episodes. The program was created by George Lefferts...
, in 1953 and 1954 and wrote the NBC documentary "Bravo, Picasso!" featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
In 1975, he was a producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series, Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
. He was executive producer/writer of the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
, Breaking Point, which aired during the 1963-1964 television season, episodes directed by Sydney Pollack and featuring Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, and Lillian Gish.
He is the co-creator and writer of Family Album, U.S.A.
Family Album, U.S.A.
Family Album, U.S.A. is a 1991 book and later a television course teaching English on an example of American everyday life. Released by Maxwell Macmillan International Publishing Group. Written by George Lefferts. Directed by Jo Anne Sedwick and Merrill M. Mazuer...
"a soap opera designed to teach English as a Second Language, distributed by MacMillan Publishers in 58 countries.
He has taught screenwriting at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Universities.