Stephen Fleischman

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Stephen E. Fleischman (born February 19, 1919 - † June 5, 2011 in New York City , New York ) was an American television producer , writer and director .

Life

Fleischman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College , Pennsylvania in 1940 .

He joined television in 1953 as a screenwriter and story editor and has worked for CBS News and ABC News , among others, over the course of his career . At CBS New he worked on the program The Search , the children's program Let's Take a Trip and The American Challenge . In the late 1950s he produced Walter Cronkite's television series The 20th Century . He then produced several CBS reports

In 1964 he moved to ABC News, where he managed his own documentary film department as a producer for 10 years. He then produced ABC News Closeup for another 10 years . From the beginning of the 1980s he produced his own documentaries, including about the aid missions of the United Nations . In this context, he visited refugee camps in Honduras and accompanied UNIFIL in the run-up to the 1982 Lebanon War .

In 1983 the ABC show Closeup: The Gene Merchants , which he produced, won the Alfred I. duPont Television Award from Columbia University . In the second half of the 1980s he worked with Yue-Sai Kan on the television series Looking East .

In 2004 he wrote his memoir, A Red in the House: The Unauthorized Memoir of SE Fleischman. He then wrote other non-fiction books and the novel The Reporter , which was inspired by his own reports on the Colombian Medellín cartel .

Fleischman was a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America .

From his marriage with the film editor Dede Allen , which lasted from 1945 until her death in 2010 , the son Tom Fleischman and a daughter emerged. He died in June 2011 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City at the age of 92.

Fonts (selection)

Non-fiction
  • A Red in the House: The Unauthorized Memoir of SE Fleischman . iUniverse, 2004, ISBN 978-0595660599 .
  • Short Jabs to the Head: Snapshots of History. 2005-2007 . iUniverse, 2007, ISBN 978-0595464456 .
  • Weapons of Words: Snapshots of History 2007–2010. iUniverse, 2010, ISBN 978-1450233026 .
novel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Who Am I In: Stephen Fleischman: Weapons of Words: Snapshots of History 2007-2010 . iUniverse, 2010, pages 243-247.
  2. ↑ a b Stephen E. Fleischman dies at 92 . In: Variety of June 8, 2011.
  3. ^ The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards . In: journalism.columbia.edu, accessed March 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fleischman, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleischman, Stephen E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television producer, writer, and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1919
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2011
Place of death New York City , New York , United States