E. W. Swackhamer Explained

Birthname:Egbert Warnderink Swackhamer
Birth Date:January 17, 1927
Birth Place:Middletown Township, New Jersey, United States
Death Place:Berlin, Germany
Occupation:Film director, film producer, television director
Yearsactive:1961–1994

Egbert Warnderink "E. W." Swackhamer Jr. (January 17, 1927 – December 5, 1994) was an American television and film director.[1]

Career

Swackhamer's credits included M*A*S*H, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Bewitched, The Partridge Family, The Flying Nun, and Law & Order.[2] Of the 27 pilots for television series directed by Swackhamer, 18 went into regular production, including Eight Is Enough, Quincy, M.E., S.W.A.T. and Nancy Drew.

Swackhamer was the stage manager for the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He went to Hollywood in 1961, after working on and off-Broadway and for national companies as an actor, stage manager and director. Swackhamer received an Emmy Award for directing the six-hour miniseries The Dain Curse during the 1977–78 season.[3]

He was the father of Ten Eyck Swackhamer and Elizabeth Swackhamer with his first wife, Gretchen Shane. He married actress Bridget Hanley on April 26, 1969 and they had two daughters, Bronwyn (born March 3, 1971) and Meagan.[4] He was working as a director on Star Command at the time of his death, of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, on December 5, 1994.

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841416/bio IMDb E.W. Swackhamer biography
  2. News: Sandra. Brennan. E.W. Swackhamer. The New York Times. November 23, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151123135856/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/113347/E-W-Swackhamer. November 23, 2015.
  3. Web site: E. W. Swackhamer; TV Director Was 67. 1994-12-21. The New York Times.
  4. http://www.yolike.com/detail/celeb/0841416/E.W.%20Swackhamer.html YoLike
  5. Web site: The New York Times. TV: 'MALIBU,' FOUR HOURS, TWO PARTS. Walter. Goodman. January 23, 1983.

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