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George Seaton
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: April 17, 1911 in South Bend, IN Death: July 28, 1979 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:Hailing from South Bend, Indiana, "George Seaton" resettled in Detroit after college to work as a radio and stock-company actor. Seaton was the second person to portray the Lone Ranger on Detroit station WXYZ; he claimed to have come up with the Ranger's immortal cry "Hi-yo, Silver" because he couldn't whistle for his horse, as the script required. Signed as a contract writer at MGM in 1933, Seaton's first major break came when he contributed comedy material, minus screen credit, for the "Marx Brothers"' "A Night at the Opera" (1935). "Groucho Marx" liked Seaton's work so much that he invited him to co-write, with credit, the screenplay for "A Day at the Races" (1937), which proved a major success for all concerned. Seaton went on to work at Columbia in the early 1940s, then set up shop at 20th Century-Fox in 1943, where he would remain for the next decade. While at Fox, Seaton was Oscar-nominated for... Full Biography
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