Albert McCleery (December 30, 1911 – May 13, 1972)[citation needed] was an American pioneering television producer during the 1950s.
[2] He spent much of his youth in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from R. L. Paschal High School there.
He helped to found a dramatic club at the school, and as a senior he was named the best actor in one-act play competition in Austin, Texas.
The book explored the community theatre movement, which a review described as "one of the newer social forces in modern American life".
[6] McCleery advocating the elimination of elaborate, expensive scenery for television programs, preferring instead to use more close-ups of faces and more rudimentary backgrounds.
On this half-hour series, McCleery offered dramas seen against pure black backgrounds instead of walls of a set.
[4] Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse (Cambria, California) recalled: McCleery was producer and director of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.