Awards & Winners

Peter Tewksbury

Date of Birth 21-March-1923
Place of Birth Cleveland
(United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Henry Peter Tewksbury, Henry Tewksbury, Henry the Cheeseman
Profession Television Director, Television Producer, Screenwriter
Peter Tewksbury was an American film and television director who directed Sunday in New York with Jane Fonda in 1963, the "Father Knows Best" TV series, 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, 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.

Awards by Peter Tewksbury

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Tewksbury.

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television It's a Man's World
For episode The Beavers and the Otters

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series My Three Sons

1959


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series
Honored for : Father Knows Best
(Medal for Margaret)

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series Father Knows Best
Medal for Margaret

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Direction - Half Hour or Less Father Knows Best