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Steven Henry Scheuer (January 9, 1926 – May 31, 2014) was 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. In 2002, he hosted and produced a 13-program series for public television, ''Television in America: An Autobiography''.


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. He also had a sister, Amy Scheuer Cohen. His wife was author and feminist social critic Alida Brill. Scheuer died on May 31, 2014, in New York of congestive heart failure.


The ''Movies on TV'' series

''Movies on TV'' was the first guide of its kind, preceding
Leonard Maltin Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is perhaps best known for his book of fi ...
's similarly titled ''TV Movies'' book series (later rebranded ''
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide ''Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide'' was a book-format collection of movie capsule reviews that began in 1969, was updated biannually after 1978, and then annually after 1986. The final edition was published in September 2014. It was originally calle ...
'') by ten years. It contained capsule reviews and ratings of movies, videos and TV movies using a four star rating system. It was renamed ''Movies on TV and Videocassette'' in 1989. Scheuer's book differed from Maltin's in that it featured a greater number of made-for-television productions, including aired
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that Maltin's book omitted.


Selected works

* ''Movies on TV'' (17 editions, 1958–1993) * ''The Movie Book'' (1974). * ''The Television Annual 1978-79'' (1979). * ''Movie Blockbusters'' (ghostwritten by
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(1982, revised 1983) * ''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) (by Steven Scheuer and Alida Brill-Scheuer).


External links (archival material)


Steven H. Scheuer Collection of Television Program Scripts
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, "contains approximately five thousand American television scripts dating from about 1953 to 1963."
Steven H. Scheuer Papers
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Steven H. Scheuer Television History Interviews
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheuer, Steven H. 1926 births American film critics 20th-century American Jews 2014 deaths 21st-century American Jews