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Don Mischer
American television director and producer

Don Mischer

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American television director and producer
Gender
Male
Place of birth
San Antonio, USA
Age
84 years
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Awards
Emmy Award
 
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Donald Leo "Don" Mischer (born March 5, 1940) is an American producer and director of television and live events and president of Don Mischer Productions.

Career

Mischer has been honored with fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America and the 2019 Director’s Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award for Television”.

As a producer/director, his credits include The Oscars, We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, the Kennedy Center Honors, the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall, Motown 25, the Super Bowl Halftime Shows (Michael Jackson, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen), the Democratic National Convention, and the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics. Mischer has also produced specials with Beyoncé, Bono, Prince, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Taylor Swift, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Garth Brooks, Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Yo Yo Ma, and Morgan Freeman, among others.

He has received the Governors Award from the National Association of Choreographers and is a member of the Event Industry Hall of Fame, the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, where he has served two terms on the board of governors. As a member of the Directors Guild of America, he has served three terms on the National Board, and in 2019 received the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Television. Only the fourth such award ever given for television. On December 11, 2014, Mischer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal addendum

  • Don Mischer Productions was formed in 1983. Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare became partners in DMP in 2005. They function out of Los Angeles as an international producing/packaging team and are represented by CAA.
  • Don was with a group of University of Texas students at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin Texas awaiting the arrival of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963. That fateful Friday afternoon, President Kennedy was to have traveled to Austin. He was en route to the airport when he passed the Texas Schoolbook Depository building in Dallas, where he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • At the age of 25, Mischer wrote and directed a documentary film in Saudi Arabia for ARAMCO. “Valley of Saleh” explored the trade routes and settlements of the ancient Nabatean civilization (300-500 BC) in the Hejaz region of Northwestern Saudi Arabia. The film was shot with a Middle Eastern crew in extremely remote areas of the Arabian Peninsula.
  • Mischer summited the Matterhorn, in the Swiss Alps, on July 31,1996. Climbing with Legendary Swiss Mountain Guide, Richard Andenmatten, they began in Zermatt and reached the 14.692 foot summit via the Hornli Ridge, on the Northeastern edge of the iconic mountain.
  • While in Washington D.C. Mischer wrote, directed, and edited a short film with Ronald Bladen, an American painter and sculptor, particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. “X” was shot at the Corcoran Museum in all night sessions while Bladden completed his work, which later appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine. The film received an Award of Merit from the Yale Film Festival.
  • For 18 consecutive years, Mischer has directed the Annual 9/11 Memorial Commemoration at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. In honor of the 2,977 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, each individual name is read aloud. NYPD, NYFD, and Port Authority Honor Guards stand at attention during the readings. Moments of silence are observed that mark each of the events of 911, at the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the farm in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where UA Flight 93 went down.
  • On May 21, 2014, Don Mischer Productions produced the official dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Museum by President Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and other national dignitaries.
  • Don has had a lifelong interested in model railroading. He has built layouts in N, O, HO, and LGB gauges. His layouts are theatrical, with music, extensive lighting cues, and sky cycloramas embedded with fiber optic stars.

Personal life

Mischer was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Lillian and Elmer Mischer. After graduating from Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Mischer completed his education at the University of Texas Austin. He graduated with a BA Degree in 1961 and with a master's degree in Sociology and Political Science in 1963. Mischer’s work took him to Washington, D.C., where he worked with the US Information Agency and Oscar-winning documentarian Charles Guggenheim.With his first wife Beverly, he has two children, Jennifer Christine and Heather Mischer Godsey. After 10 years in New York, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he had two children, Charles Donald and Lilly Ellison, with his wife Suzan Reed Mischer, a former CBS executive and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Accolades

  • Mischer has 40 Primetime Emmy nominations, with 15 Emmy wins: 13 wins through The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and 2 wins through the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
  • 10 Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
  • George Foster Peabody Award for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever.
  • Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television, from the Producers Guild of America (2012).
  • Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award (2019). Only the fourth such award given for Television Direction.
  • 2 NAACP Image Awards.
  • Governors Award from the National Association of Choreographers.
  • Membership in the Event Industry Hall of Fame.
  • Received Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 11, 2014.

2004 Democratic National Convention

In 2004, he produced the Democratic National Convention at Fleet Arena in Boston. After John Kerry’s acceptance speech, balloons were supposed drop from the ceiling onto the delegates below. However, the balloons got stuck in the ceiling and did not fall. Mischer subsequently lost his temper with his tech crew and his profanities were aired accidentally by CNN’s live broadcast.

Selected television credits

Executive producer
1970-71Great American Dream Machine – PBSDirector
1973-1975In Concert – ABCDirector
1976Twyla Tharp: Making Television Dance – PBSDirector
1978-1986The Kennedy Center Honors – CBSDirector3 Primetime Emmy Awards, 3 Directors Guild Awards
1978Omnibus: Meryl Streep – ABCDirector
1981Goldie & Lisa Together – CBSProducer / director
1982Shirley McLlain Illusions – NBCProducer / directorDirectors Guild Award
1982Baryshnikov in Hollywood – CBSDirector2 Primetime Emmy nominations
1983Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever – NBCProducer / directorPrimetime Emmy Award, Peabody Award, Director's Guild Award
1984Baryshnikov by Tharp – Great Performances PBSProducer / directorPrimetime Emmy Award, Director's Guild Award (with co Director Twayla Thwarp)
1985Motown Returns to The Apollo – NBCProducer / directorPrimetime Emmy Award, Emmy nomination, Director's Guild Award
1985Carnegie Hall: Grand Reopening – CBSProducer
1989Willie Nelson: Texas Style – CBSProducer, director, writer
1987The Tony Awards – CBS
Executive producer
Primetime Emmy Award
Executive producer
1988The Tony Awards – CBSExecutive producerPrimetime Emmy nomination
1989The Tony Awards – CBSExecutive producerPrimetime Emmy Award
1988Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday at Carnegie Hall – CBSExecutive producerPrimetime Emmy Award
1991Gregory Hines: Tap Dance in America – Great Performances PBSProducer / directorPrimetime Emmy Award, Directors Guild Award
1992-2005The Kennedy Center Honors – CBSProducer2 Primetime Emmy Awards
1991Carnegie Hall Live at 100 – PBSExecutive producerEmmy nomination
1992Bob Hope: The First 90 Years – NBCProducerEmmy Award
1993Michael Jackson Super Bowl 27 Halftime – NBCProducer / director
1996Atlanta Cenntenial Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies – Worldwide FeedProducer / directorEmmy Award, Directors Guild Award
1998Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson – CBSProducer / directorEmmy nomination
1998To Life: Israel's 50th Anniversary Celebration – ABCProducer
1999Sonny + Cher: Cher Remembers – CBSProducer / director
2000Barbra Striesand: Timeless – FOXProducer / directorDirectors Guild Award Nomination (with c/o director Barbra Striesand)
2002Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies – Worldworld FeedExecutive producerAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences National Sports Emmy Award
2004Democratic National Convention 2004Producer
2005McCarney Super Bowl 39 Halftime – FOXProducer / director
2006Rolling Stones Super Bowl 40 Halftime- ABCProducer / director
2007James Taylor: One Man Band – PBSProducer / directorEmmy nomination
2007Shanghai Special Olympics – CCTV, BBCProducer
2007Prince Super Bowl 41 Halftime – CBSProducer / directorEmmy nomination
MULTIPLE YEARSEmmy Awards – ABC, CBS, NBC, FOXExecutive producer
2007Movies Rock – CBSExecutive producer / director
2008Tom Petty Super Bowl 42 Halftime – NBCExecutive producer / director
2008Fashion RocksProducer + Director
2009We Are One: Obama Inaugural Concert at The Lincoln Memorial – HBOProducer / directorDirectors Guild Award
2009Springsteen Super Bowl 43 Halftime – NBCExecutive producer / directorEmmy nomination
2011The 83rd OscarsProducer / directorEmmy nomination
2012The 84th OscarsProducer / directorEmmy nomination
2013The 85th OscarsDirectorEmmy nomination
2012One Night Only: Eddie Murphy – SPIKEProducer / director
2016Jazz at The White House – ABCProducer / director
2012-2019The Breakthrough Prize – FOX, NatGeoProducer / director
2014One Night Only: Don Rickles – SPIKEProducer
2011 – 2013Billboard Music Awards – ABCExecutive producer
20149/11 Memorial Museum DedicationProducer / director
2016Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America – ABCExecutive producer / writer
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Who is Don Mischer?
Don Mischer is an American television and event producer and director. He is best known for producing and directing live television events, including several Super Bowl halftime shows and the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He has also produced and directed numerous award shows, such as the Oscars and the Emmys.
What is Don Mischer Productions?
Don Mischer Productions is a television and event production company founded by Don Mischer. The company is known for producing and directing live events, award shows, and television specials. They have worked on projects such as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Democratic National Convention.
How many Emmy Awards has Don Mischer won?
Don Mischer has won 15 Emmy Awards throughout his career. He has been recognized for his work as a producer and director of various television specials and live events. Some of his Emmy-winning projects include the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Super Bowl halftime shows, and the Oscars.
What other notable events has Don Mischer directed?
In addition to the Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympics opening ceremonies, Don Mischer has directed a variety of other notable events. He directed the 1984 Summer Olympics closing ceremonies in Los Angeles, the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and the Presidential Inaugural Gala in 2008. He has also directed concerts, such as the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special in 2001.
Has Don Mischer worked on any Broadway shows?
Yes, Don Mischer has worked on several Broadway shows as a producer and director. He produced and directed the highly successful Broadway production of "Annie," which won multiple Tony Awards. He also produced and directed the revivals of "Pippin" and "The King and I," both of which received critical acclaim.
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