Steven H. Scheuer

Steven H. Scheuer ( 1926) is a film and television historian and critic. He edited all seventeen editions of Movies on TV published between 1958 and 1993 and wrote The Movie Book(1974), subtitled A Comprehensive, Authoritative, Omnibus Volume on Motion Pictures and the Cinema World. He was moderator of the syndicated television series All About TV from 1969 to 1990.

Life

Scheuer was born in New York City in 1926. His brothers (all deceased) were 13-Term New York Congressman James H. Scheuer, Walter Scheuer, an investor and film producer, and Richard Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist.

The Movies on TV series

Movies on TV was the first guide of its kind, preceding Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide by ten years. It contained ratings of movies, videos and TV movies using a four star rating system. It was renamed Movies on TV and Videocassette in 1989.

Legacy

The Steven H. Scheuer Collection of Television Program Scripts at Yale University "contains approximately five thousand American television scripts dating from about 1953 to 1963."^[1] The Steven H. Scheuer Papers are housed at the Syracuse University Library.^[2]

Selected works

• Movies on TV (17 editions, 1958–1993)
• The Movie Book (1974)
• Who's Who in Television and Cable (1983)
• Box Office Champions: The Biggest Movie Blockbusters of All Time (1984)
• The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies (1987)
• The Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD (2003)

References

1. ^ "Overview, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library". http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:scheuer/EAD&adv=y&query=dc.identifier:%22beinecke*%22&filter=&sortFields=fgs.title%2Basc&hitPageStart=826. 
2. ^ "Steven H. Scheuer Papers, An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University". http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/scheuer_sh.htm. 

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Name	Scheuer, Steven H.
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Date of birth	January 9 1926
Place of birth	New York, New York
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