Franklin J. Schaffner
Frank Schaffner
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Raised in Japan before his family settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he excelled academically at J.P. McCaskey High School and Franklin & Marshall College, where he led the Green Room Theatre club; brief legal studies at Columbia were halted by World War II service in the U.S. Navy and the OSS, after which he entered broadcasting, directing news, sports and public-service pieces for CBS. Early te…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
