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Walter Grauman

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Template:Short description Template:For Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox person Walter E. Grauman (March 17, 1922 – March 20, 2015) was an American director of stage shows, films and television shows.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Grauman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jacob and Irene Grauman, both children of German immigrants who married after settling in the United States.<ref name = "immigration data">15th Census of the US; Shorewood Village, Milwaukee County, WI, ED 40-361, Sheet 29A</ref> His father, Jacob Grauman, was president of a film distributing company.<ref name="immigration data"/>

In his early years, Grauman lived in Shorewood, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, and later moved to Arizona where he attended the University of Arizona. He served for four years in the United States Army Air Forces flying 56 combat missions over Europe<ref name="Barnes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Telegraph">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in a B-25 in the Twelfth Air Force<ref name="Kubey">Template:Cite book</ref> and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> before moving to California, where his mother was living at the time.

Entertainment industryEdit

After spending a few years running his own business, Grauman eventually took a job as stage manager at NBC's studios in Los Angeles. During his stint working at the network, he and relative (by marriage) Alan Armer developed a talent-show type program that proved popular, setting the mold for shows like Star Search and American Idol to follow.

In 1957, Grauman turned to films, directing "The Disembodied" for the "B film" division of Allied Artists Studios, which was headed by friend Walter Mirisch. Although he directed only six theatrical films, Grauman had one of the most active and long lasting television careers in history which included work on such shows as The Untouchables, The Fugitive, Route 66, The Streets of San Francisco, The Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote. He also reportedly helped to get Michael Douglas one of his first jobs as a lead on The Streets of San Francisco.

Grauman directed 633 Squadron, a World War II film about a fictional squadron in the British RAF. In interviews, George Lucas has commented that he patterned the "trench run" sequence in his Star Wars: Episode IV on a scene from this film. (See the article on 633 Squadron for more information.)

Grauman also directed a number of made-for-TV films, including the Aaron Spelling produced 1970 supernatural horror film Crowhaven Farm. Broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week on 24 November 1970 and starring Hope Lange and Paul Burke, the film involves witchcraft, déjà vu, death, betrayal, revenge, and reincarnation, and it has become a cult classic.<ref name="New England">Template:Cite news</ref> <ref name="McKenna">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Deal">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Karol">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Roberts">Template:Cite book</ref>

Grauman was the creator/executive producer of the Los Angeles Spotlight Awards (not to be confused with the Spotlight Awards (GDC) for game developers), which are run through the Los Angeles Music Center. He was among the closest living relatives to Sid Grauman, owner and founder of Los Angeles' famous Grauman's Chinese Theater, Egyptian Theater and Million Dollar Theater. At the time of his death in 2015 at the age of 93,<ref name="Colker">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he resided in Los Angeles with his wife.<ref name="Colker"/><ref name="Dagan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Directorial credits, theatrical filmsEdit

Pilots and television seriesEdit

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Live television dramaEdit

Director/creator/executive producerEdit

Movies for television and mini-seriesEdit

Movies for television and mini-series – directorEdit

CBS movies and mini-series – director / producerEdit

ReferencesEdit

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