George Seaton

Directing·Apr 17, 1911·South Bend, Indiana, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Seaton (April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director. Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ. John L. Barrett played The Lone Ranger on test broadcasts of the series in early January 1933, but when the program became part of the regular schedule Seaton was cast in the title role. In later years he claimed to have devised the cry "Hi-yo, Silver" because he couldn't whistle for his horse as the script required. Seaton joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a contract writer in 1933. His first major screen credit was the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races in 1937. In the early 1940s he joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for the rest of the decade, writing scripts for Moon Over Miami, Coney Island, Charley's Aunt, The Song of Bernadette, and others before making his directorial debut with Diamond Horseshoe in 1945. From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films, including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, Chicken Every Sunday, The Big Lift, For Heaven's Sake, Little Boy Lost, The Country Girl, and The Proud and Profane. But Not Goodbye, Seaton's 1944 Broadway debut as a playwright, closed after only 23 performances, although it later was adapted for the 1946 film The Cockeyed Miracle by Karen DeWolf. In 1967 he returned to Broadway to direct the Norman Krasna play Love in E Flat, which was a critical and commercial flop. The musical Here's Love, adapted from his screenplay for Miracle on 34th Street by Meredith Willson, proved to be more successful. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay twice, for Miracle on 34th Street (which also earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay) and The Country Girl, and was nominated for Oscars three additional times. He received The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961. Seaton died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Seaton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Film	Credit
Airports2025 · Director	Director
Miracle on 34th Street1994 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Grace Kelly: The American Princess1987 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Miracle on 34th Street1973 · Writer	Writer
Showdown1973 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Airport1970 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?1968 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
36 Hours1964 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Twilight of Honor1963 · Producer	Producer
The Hook1963 · Director	Director
The Counterfeit Traitor1962 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
The Pleasure of His Company1961 · Director	Director
The Rat Race1960 · Producer	Producer
Miracle On 34th Street1959 · Screenplay	Screenplay
But Not for Me1959 · Producer	Producer
Teacher's Pet1958 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Tin Star1957 · Producer	Producer
Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot1957 · Director	Director
The Proud and Profane1956 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Country Girl1954 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Bridges at Toko-Ri1954 · Producer	Producer
Little Boy Lost1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Somebody Loves Me1952 · Producer	Producer
Anything Can Happen1952 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick1952 · Producer	Producer
Rhubarb1951 · Producer	Producer
For Heaven's Sake1950 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Big Lift1950 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Chicken Every Sunday1949 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Apartment for Peggy1948 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Miracle on 34th Street1947 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim1947 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Junior Miss1945 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Diamond Horseshoe1945 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Eve of St. Mark1944 · Writer	Writer
The Song of Bernadette1943 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Coney Island1943 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Meanest Man in the World1943 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Magnificent Dope1942 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Charley's Aunt1941 · Screenplay	Screenplay
That Night in Rio1941 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Doctor Takes a Wife1940 · Screenplay	Screenplay
A Day at the Races1937 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Winning Ticket1935 · Writer	Writer