Fielder Cook

Directeur, Producteur

9 mars 1923 — 20 juin 2003 (80 ans)
Fielder Cook (March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Cook graduated with honor with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from Washington and Lee University, then studied Elizabethan Drama at the University of Birmingham in England. He returned to the United States and began his career in the early days of television, directing many episodes of such anthology series as Lux Video Theater, The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Playhouse 90, Omnibus, and Kraft Television Theatre. In later years, he directed the television movies Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, Gauguin the Savage, Family Reunion, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Will There Really Be a Morning?, and others; adaptations of The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, Brigadoon, Beauty and the Beast, The Price, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Member of the Wedding; and episodes of Ben Casey, The Defenders, and Beacon Hill.

Cook's credits for feature films include A Big Hand for the Little Lady, How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968), Prudence and the Pill (1968, co-director), From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), Eagle in a Cage, and Seize the Day.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Rapaces
    Rapaces1956
  • Eagle in a Cage
    Eagle in a Cage1972
  • Miles to Go Before I Sleep
    Miles to Go Before I Sleep1975

Connue pour

  • Gros coup à Dodge City
    Gros coup à Dodge City1966
  • Rapaces
    Rapaces1956
  • The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
    The Homecoming: A Christmas Story1971
  • Harvey
    Harvey1972
  • Comment sauver un mariage et ruiner votre vie
    Comment sauver un mariage et ruiner votre vie1968
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler1973
  • Le Pouvoir de l'argent
    Le Pouvoir de l'argent1986
  • Prudence et la pilule
    Prudence et la pilule1968
  • L'opération de la dernière chance
    L'opération de la dernière chance1984
  • Eagle in a Cage
    Eagle in a Cage1972
  • The Member of the Wedding
    The Member of the Wedding1997
  • The Lux Video Theatre
    The Lux Video Theatre7 saisons
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Hallmark Hall of Fame61 saisons

Filmographie

1996
1985
American Masters · as Self - Director

1956
Kaiser Aluminum Hour · as Adaptation
1948
Studio One · as Story
1947
Kraft Television Theatre · as Written By