Carol Schreder dies at 65

Author-producer Carol Schreder, who produced landmark telepic "The Burning Bed mattress" and directed numerous documentaries throughout an even more than three-decade career, was destroyed in the cycling accident round the Mulholland Highway near Kanan Road, inside an area near Agoura Slopes, Calif., on 12 ,. 3. Schreder was finishing an ordinary 50-mile ride when she was struck having a passenger van towing a trailer and died your evening at UCLA's Taxation Hospital. She was 65. An analysis in the accident with the California Highway Patrol is pending. Schreder was one of the primary female Pointing Men in the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies, where she developed a documentary about aerospace pioneer William Lear, "With the Chair of His Pants." In 1978 Steve McQueen hired her to evaluate and write the first technique to his 1980 Western "Tom Horn." Schreder produced numerous films for long-term friend Jon Avnet's production company, including acclaimed NBC telepic "The Burning Bed mattress" (1985), which starred Farrah Fawcett and directed national concentrate on the problem of domestic violence. She appeared to become showrunner for ABC's 1984-85 series "Call to Glory," a great Air Pressure family through the sixties co-producer of Avnet's 1986 ABC telepic "Between Two Women," starring Fawcett Colleen Dewhurst and author-producer of NBC's 1987 docudrama "For One Another and War," about Medal of Recognition recipient Admiral James Stockdale's gallantry just like a Prisoner of War in Hanoi. In 1995 Schreder traveled to Nigeria and asked Nelson Mandela, seeing his release from prison firsthand on her behalf behave as a author together with a producer on "Apartheid," an eight-part TNT miniseries created by Avnet and Jordan Kerner. She also looked into human rights issues in CBS' brief 1998 series "Mama Flora's Family," that they was nominated for just about any Humanitas Award. Born in Greenwich, Conn., Schreder received a bachelor's degree in Chinese Studies from Skidmore College together with a Masters within the USC School of Cinema. A longtime part of both Authors Guild of America as well as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Schreder had returned for the American Film Institute lately. Just like a part of AFI's 2005 Pointing Workshop for girls, she written and directed a short film, "A Establishing of Arms." Schreder is managed to get by her mother a brother together with a sister together with a niece and a pair of nephews. A public memorial service will probably be kept in Santa Monica within the Aero Theatre within the month of the month of january. Donations be created for the Carol Schreder Scholarship Fund within the American Film Institute in La. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com