Peter Tewksbury

Peter Tewksbury (March 21, 1923 – February 20, 2003) was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the Father Knows Best TV series (131 episodes, 1954–1960), and a pair of Elvis Presley movies. He directed the entire first season of the television situation comedy My Three Sons and also frequently served as a producer and writer for the series. He also created It's a Man's World, a TV series that aired from September 1962 to January 1963, and collaborated with J.D. Salinger on a film adaptation of the author's "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor", which was never produced after a casting dispute between the two men.[1]

Peter Tewksbury
Born(1923-03-21)March 21, 1923
Cleveland, Ohio,
United States
DiedFebruary 20, 2003(2003-02-20) (aged 79)
Brattleboro, Vermont,
United States
OccupationDirector
Years active1954–1977

Film Credits

Notes
  1. Rosenbaum, Ron (September 12, 2013). "He's Not Holden! The one big mistake people make about Salinger and Catcher in the Rye". Slate. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
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