Early Life
Graef was born in New York, and started directing plays at Harvard University, staging the première of Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons, and the New England première of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera The Mother of Us All.
He directed twenty-four plays in theatres up and down the East Coast, and was chosen by CBS for its new TV drama directors' program. He directed two network dramas for CBS, including The Seven who were Hanged, an hour special adapted and produced by Robert Herridge from the Leonid Andreyev novel of the same name.
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