George Schaefer (November 5, 1888, Brooklyn, New York – August 8, 1981) was a movie producer and once the president of RKO in 1941 when
Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years...
made his classic film
Citizen KaneCitizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles...
. Schaefer, a top executive at
United ArtistsUnited Artists Entertainment LLC is an American film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company...
, was hired as president of RKO in 1938. He was fired from RKO in 1942 because of the controversy surrounding it and Wells' second film
The Magnificent AmbersonsThe Magnificent Ambersons is a American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins...
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George Schaefer (November 5, 1888, Brooklyn, New York – August 8, 1981) was a movie producer and once the president of RKO in 1941 when
Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years...
made his classic film
Citizen KaneCitizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles...
. Schaefer, a top executive at
United ArtistsUnited Artists Entertainment LLC is an American film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company...
, was hired as president of RKO in 1938. He was fired from RKO in 1942 because of the controversy surrounding it and Wells' second film
The Magnificent AmbersonsThe Magnificent Ambersons is a American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins...
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Schaefer was played by
Roy ScheiderRoy Richard Scheider was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the...
in
RKO 281RKO 281 is a 1999 dramatic film directed by Benjamin Ross and starringLiev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, and Roy Scheider...
, a 1999 TV movie of the events surrounding the
Citizen Kane controversy.