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Biography of Rufus Pederson<\/strong>
\nupon his nomination to the Silver Circle
\nof the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
\nSan Francisco\/Northern California Chapter<\/em><\/p>\n

Rufus Pederson is an outstanding television director who has dedicated his life to his craft and to the advancement of directors in the television industry. Besides that, he is the nicest human being you will ever meet.<\/p>\n

He has shown his versatility over the years by directing every conceivable kind of television show, including news, variety, talk, and specials. In many of these shows he also functioned as a producer. But directing is his first love and to promote his enamoured, he has spent years working for the Directors Guild of America. He was a founding member of the San Francisco Coordinating Committee of DGA and has been a longstanding member of that body\u2019s governing board as well as serving as a representative to the annual DGA National Conference. He has spent endless hours representing the right of every director to have decent work for decent pay.<\/p>\n

Rufus began his love affair with television in the army at the first Armed Forces television station — a closed-circuit hook-up with the call letters \u201cCSLO\u201d at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, an Army Corps training camp. That was in 1952. He was a director and occasionally a performer. Needless to say, he gave up on the latter.<\/p>\n

After getting out of the service, he went to work as a floor manager then director at KCOP-TV Los Angeles starting in 1955. He worked on the Oscar Levant show, among others.<\/p>\n

Then he got a better offer from Channel 2, KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, to become their production manager as well as director. While there he directed a two-hour live variety show hosted by Steve Davis, later a KGO-TV reporter. Supposedly the show included live animal acts, juggling, mariachis, and many forms of spontaneous mayhem which Rufus ring-mastered artfully.<\/p>\n

After a brief stint at Channel 44 in San Francisco attempting an all-live station which didn\u2019t last very long, he finally arrived at KGO-TV, Channel 7. And the rest they say is history. At KGO he was a preeminent director able to direct every form of television. He spent many years directing the \u201cAM-San Francisco\u201d live morning show and its successor, \u201cGood Morning Bay Area.\u201d In addition, he has directed weekly magazine shows including \u201cFront Row Video\u201d, \u201c900 Front Street\u201d and the nationally syndicated \u201cDr Dean Edell\u2019s Medical Journal,\u201d which also won an \u201cIris\u201d award for \u201cBest New Magazine Show.\u201d He has directed every form of news and news special imaginable. But some of his best work shows up in variety shows and specials, such as \u201cGood Time Cafe,\u201d (a comedy special syndicated to the Arts & Entertainment Network), \u201cThe Roast of Champions,\u201d \u201cThe Bay Area Night of International Stars,\u201d and \u201cThe 40th Anniversary Special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rufus merits consideration for the \u201cSilver Circle Award\u201d because he has dedicated his life to the advancement of television, particularly television in the Bay Area. And he has done it all with grace, kindness and a wonderful joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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