A boy of missionaries, Schaffner was natural within Tokyo, Japan and raised in that united states. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active inside drama. He exposed law at Columbia University in New York City but his education was interrupted by service with a United States Navy in World War II during which he served with Western amphibious forces in Europe and North Africa. In the latter stages of the war he was sent to the Pacific Far East to serve with a United States Office for Strategic Services.

Giving residence fallowing a war, he detected function in the television industry using March of Instance so joined a CBS network. He won directing Emmys for his work on the original 1854 CBS teleplay, Twelve Angry Men. Schaffner earned 2 further Emmy awards for his operate on the 1955 television play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial for Ford Star Jubilee." He won his quaternary Emmy Award for his act on the series, The Defenders.

Around 1960, he directed a stage play, "Advise and Consent." His number 1 Hollywood motion picture was praised and he directed a influential hit Planet of the Apes. His next film, Patton was a major profits for which he won a Academy Award for Directing and the Director's Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. For the total of his films, Schaffner collaborated by using composer Jerry Goldsmith for the film scores.

Schaffner married Helen Jane Gilchrist around 1948. A few experienced ii kids.

Schaffner was elective President of the Directors Guild of Usa around 1987.

Schaffner passed away inside 1989 & was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California.

Filmography
Woman of Summer (1963) The Best Man (1964) The War Lord (1965) The Double Man (1967) Planet of the Apes (1967) Patton (1969) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) Papillon (1973) Islands in the Stream (1976) The Boys from Brazil (1978) Sphinx (1980) Yes, Giorgio (1982) Lionheart (1987) Welcome Home (1989).

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