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Director Born: March 21, 1923 in Cleveland, OH Death: February 20, 2003 in Brattleboro, VT Biography:Best known in the entertainment industry as the Emmy award-winning director of the popular television series Father Knows Best, Henry Peter Tewksbury would later prove himself equally adept at managing the vast cheese department of Vermont's Brattleboro Food Co-op. Born in March of 1923 in Cleveland, OH, Tewksbury attended Dartmouth before enlisting in the army and serving as a captain in World War II. Subsequently relocating to California and embarking on a radio career, the ex-military man proved himself to be remarkably capable in his five-year stint in the business, and in 1947 he founded the Porterville Barn Theater. His reputation soon spread to Tinseltown and he was asked to helm Father Knows Best when the series made the leap from radio to television in 1954. In addition to his work on Father Knows Best, it wasn't long before Tewksbury was stepping behind the camera for such popular series as... Full Biography
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