Eddie Saeta(1914-2005)
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
- Producer
American production manager and assistant director who directed and
produced films. A native of Philadelphia, Saeta grew up in Los Angeles,
where his father was head of the Columbia Pictures electrical
department. At 18, Saeta got a job as Columbia boss Harry Cohn's
messenger boy, which led to work as a 3rd assistant director on
westerns at Columbia and subsequently Monogram. Following service in
the Second World War in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Saeta returned to
Columbia and spent nearly two decades as an assistant director.
Subsequently he branched into work as a production manager, and
produced and directed a few films as well. He received a Directors
Guild Award for his work on the TV movie _Brian's Song (1973) (TV)_. He died at the age of
90.
