Lela Swift

Lela Swift (born Lillian Siwoff; February 1, 1919 – August 4, 2015) Her brother was baseball statistician and owner of the Elias Sports Bureau, Seymour Siwoff.

Career Swift started her career in the secretarial pool at CBS. She worked behind the scenes on news programs there. She worked through the studio system ranks at CBS and served as an assistant director on several anthology series. Her directorial career began in 1950.

She later served as one of the directors for the series Ryan's Hope, a daytime drama about a large working-class Irish-American family that lasted 14 years.

Awards Swift received four Daytime Emmy nominations for her work on Ryan's Hope, winning in 1977, 1979, and 1980. She also received a Daytime Emmy nomination in the Best Individual Director for a Special Program category for an episode of The ABC Afternoon Playbreak.

Death and legacy She died at her Santa Monica, California home on August 4, 2015. She was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

Personal life Her husband, Gilbert ("Geb") Schwartz, died on January 30, 2015, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for many years. The couple had two sons, Russell and Stuart, who both work in the television industry;