Writer and Producer George Lefferts Has Died
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Lefferts was a writer, producer, playwright, poet, and director of television dramas, motion pictures, radio dramas, and socially conscious documentaries. His original plays and films for television won Emmy Awards three times and Golden Globes twice.
George Leffertz was born in Paterson, New Jersey on June 18, 1921. He was raised in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School, where he worked on the school paper. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Intelligence and Medical Corps, enlisting at the age of 20. He was a glider pilot and deep water sailor.
Lefferts worked as a columnist for The New York Observer and was twice winner of First Place, the New England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column in America (1983 and 1984).
Lefferts was executive producer and writer of the Smithsonian Institution Specials for David Wolper Productions, executive producer for Time-Life, NBC, ABC and CBS, and a frequent writer of original scripts and short stories for the science fiction radio programs Dimension X and X Minus One. He wrote and produced the anti-ageist 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 Special for Women, a groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring anthropologist Margaret Mead; the program won the Emmy Award (1967) and the Golden Globe Award (1968).
His original play The Loneliness of the Armadillo was presented by the Banyan Theater in Sarasota, Florida and two new plays The Boat and The Party Store were presented at the HBO Theater in New York in 2013.
Lefferts completed the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou Cantata, based on the infamous Amadou Diallo trial of four NYPD officers.
Lefferts also created and wrote the comedy series Rocky Fortune starring Frank Sinatra, and the NBC documentary Bravo, Picasso! featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
Lefferts was producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series, Ryan's Hope during its early weeks, and executive producer and writer of the ABC medical drama, Breaking Point which aired during the 1963–1964 television season. Episodes were directed by Sydney Pollack and featured Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Lillian Gish.
Lefferts was 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.
Lefferts taught screenwriting at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers
Universities. He was a member of the American Medical Writers Association. As a
writer and producer for The Network for Continuing Medical Education, he was
credited for many "cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor
Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain–Where It Hurts Most [NBC], What Price Health,
with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture Anesthesia in Red China [NBC].
George Lefferts died in Leonia, New Jersey on April 18, 2018, at the age of 96.
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Confidential for Women
Writer
ReleasedTV Series
1966
2 episodes
Retro Static Radio (2020)
Retro Static Radio
Podcast Series
original story by
2020
1 episode
CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984)
CBS Schoolbreak Special
6.8
TV Series
screenplay
story
1988
1 episode
As the World Turns (1956)
As the World Turns
6.2
TV Series
creative consultant
1985
1 episode
James Mason in The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)
The Search for Alexander the Great
7.7
TV Mini Series
Writer
1981
4 episodes
The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
The People vs. Jean Harris
6.3
TV Movie
Writer
1981
She's Dressed to Kill (1979)
She's Dressed to Kill
5.3
TV Movie
written by
1979
Buddy Hackett and Harvey Korman in Bud and Lou (1978)
Bud and Lou
5.4
TV Movie
Writer
1978
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
Mean Dog Blues
6.0
writer
1978
ABC Weekend Specials (1977)
ABC Weekend Specials
7.8
TV Series
story by
teleplay by
1978
1 episode
Lillian Müller in The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
4.4
TV Movie
Writer
1977
Family (1976)
Family
7.6
TV Series
teleplay
1976
2 episodes
Demon, Demon
6.1
TV Movie
Writer
1975
Polly Bergen, Donna Mills, Paul Burke, Judy Carne, and
Barbara Feldon in The Wide World of Mystery (1973)
The Wide World of Mystery
7.2
TV Series
written by
1974–1975
3 episodes
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
6.4
TV Movie
Writer
1975
Flight: The Sky's the Limit
TV Movie
Writer
1974
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972)
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
7.4
TV Series
written by
1974
1 episode
Mark Jenkins and Stephen Manley in Young Dr. Kildare (1972)
Young Dr. Kildare
6.4
TV Series
written by
1972
1 episode
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
6.9
TV Series
written by
1971–1972
2 episodes
N.Y.P.D. (1967)
N.Y.P.D.
7.4
TV Series
written by
1967
1 episode
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
7.6
TV Series
Writer
1965
1 episode
Breaking Point (1963)
Breaking Point
7.4
TV Series
written by
writer
1963
2 episodes
Special for Women: The Indiscriminate Woman
TV Movie
Writer
1962
Special for Women: The Glamour Trap
TV Movie
teleplay
1961
Special for Women: What's Wrong with Men?
TV Movie
written by
1961
The Working Mother
TV Movie
play
1961
Tallahassee 7000 (1961)
Tallahassee 7000
7.2
TV Series
story
1961
1 episode
Special for Women: Mother and Daughter
TV Movie
Writer
1961
The Best of the Post (1960)
The Best of the Post
7.5
TV Series
teleplay
1960
1 episode
Special for Women: The Trapped Housewife
TV Movie
Writer
1960
Special for Women: The Cold Woman
TV Movie
teleplay
1960
World Wide '60 (1960)
World Wide '60
TV Series
writer
1960
1 episode
Border Patrol
7.0
TV Series
written by
1959
1 episode
Tactic
6.4
TV Series
writer
1959
Rendezvous (1957)
Rendezvous
7.2
TV Series
writer
1958
1 episode
Suspicion (1957)
Suspicion
8.2
TV Series
writer
1958
1 episode
Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950)
Armstrong Circle Theatre
7.7
TV Series
writer
1956–1957
2 episodes
Justice (1954)
Justice
5.8
TV Series
television play by
1956
1 episode
On Camera
6.8
TV Series
adaptation
1956
1 episode
X Minus One (1955)
X Minus One
9.3
Podcast Series
adaptation
original story
writer ...
1955
15 episodes
American Inventory
TV Series
written by
1955
4 episodes
1776
TV Special
Writer
1955
The Way of the World (1955)
The Way of the World
7.5
TV Series
writer
1955
1 episode
Star Tonight (1955)
Star Tonight
7.4
TV Series
adaptation
1955
1 episode
Modern Romances
TV Series
writer
1954–1955
21 episodes
William Shatner in Encounter (1952)
Encounter
7.1
TV Series
Writer
1954
1 episode
Kraft Theatre (1947)
Kraft Theatre
8.0
TV Series
written by
1949–1954
3 episodes
Hollywood Opening Night
5.6
TV Series
Writer
1953
1 episode
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
7.8
TV Series
writer
1952
1 episode
Dimension X (1950)
Dimension X
9.0
Podcast Series
adapted by
story
original story
1950–1951
22 episodes
Lights Out (1946)
Lights Out
6.8
TV Series
written by
adaptation
teleplay
1949–1951
7 episodes
Producer
Confidential for Women
executive producer
ReleasedTV Series
1966
1 episode
Family Album, U.S.A (1991)
Family Album, U.S.A
8.8
TV Series
producer
1991
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
Mean Dog Blues
6.0
producer
1978
Lillian Müller in The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
4.4
TV Movie
producer
1977
Polly Bergen, Donna Mills, Paul Burke, Judy Carne, and
Barbara Feldon in The Wide World of Mystery (1973)
The Wide World of Mystery
7.2
TV Series
executive producer
1974–1975
2 episodes
Kate Mulgrew, Bernard Barrow, Helen Gallagher, Malcolm
Groome, and Michael Hawkins in Ryan's Hope (1975)
Ryan's Hope
7.1
TV Series
producer
1975
50 episodes
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
6.4
TV Movie
executive producer
1975
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
7.6
TV Mini Series
producer
1974–1975
4 episodes
Flight: The Sky's the Limit
TV Movie
producer
1974
Rod Serling in Monsters! Mysteries or Myths? (1974)
Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?
8.2
TV Movie
executive producer
1974
Teacher, Teacher (1969)
Teacher, Teacher
7.8
TV Movie
producer
1969
Breaking Point (1963)
Breaking Point
7.4
TV Series
executive producer
producer
1963–1964
29 episodes
Special for Women: The Indiscriminate Woman
TV Movie
producer
1962
Special for Women: The Glamour Trap
TV Movie
producer
1961
Special for Women: What's Wrong with Men?
TV Movie
producer
1961
Special for Women: Mother and Daughter
TV Movie
producer
1961
Special for Women: The Trapped Housewife
TV Movie
producer
1960
Special for Women: The Cold Woman
TV Movie
producer
1960
Additional Crew
The Catlins (1982)
The Catlins
7.3
TV Series
creative consultant
1983–1984
2 episodes
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
7.6
TV Mini Series
creative consultant
1975
1 episode
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