Peter Tewksbury

Peter Tewksbury
Born	(1923-03-21)March 21, 1923 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died	February 20, 2003(2003-02-20) (aged 79) Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Occupation	Director
Years active	1954–1977

Peter Tewksbury (March 21, 1923 – February 20, 2003) was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the Father Knows Best TV series (131 episodes, 1954-1960), and a pair of Elvis Presley movies. He directed the entire first season of the television situation comedy My Three Sons and also frequently served as a producer and writer for the series. He also created It's a Man's World (TV series), and collaborated with J.D. Salinger on a film adaptation of the author's “For Esmé With Love and Squalor,” which was never produced after a casting dispute between the two men.

Film Credits

• The Trouble with Girls (And How To Get Into It) (1969)
• Stay Away, Joe (1968)
• Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967)
• Sunday in New York (1963)
• Emil and the Detectives (1964)

External links

• Peter Tewksbury at IMDb
• The Film J. D. Salinger Nearly Made by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, November 21, 2016 – discusses Tewksbury's connection to Salinger