![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director Biography:Thanks to his having directed the "classic 39" filmed episodes of The Honeymooners -- and their seemingly endless reruns on television for 50 years -- Frank Satenstein is one of the most familiar names in television directing. The irony is that those Honeymooners shows were only a two-year sliver out of a very busy career that carried Satenstein from theater to movies to the small-screen. Born in New York City to Louis and Harriet Satenstein, Frank P. Satenstein attended the Ethical Culture Schools and later studied at Cornell and Columbia universities. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and, after returning to civilian life, went into theater as a producer, in partnership at various times with Richard Krakaur and Edgar Luckenbach, Richard Kollmar, Eddie Dowling, and John Wilberg. He also founded a movie company, Marathon Productions, that made two very important topical films in... Full Biography | |||
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