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Arthur Allan Seidelman

Director, Actor, Writer, Producer
Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor.

Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award, The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals, including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters. Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER.

Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. He has had considerable success off-Broadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence, by Ronald Ribman, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson, among others. He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific. In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of Hair, Of Thee I Sing, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, Follies and others. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi Newhouse) for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Hercules in New York
  • Knots Landing
  • A Christmas Carol: The Musical
  • Miracle in the Woods
  • Grace & Glorie
  • Harvest of Fire
  • Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
  • CBS Schoolbreak Special
  • The Runaway
  • The Summer of Ben Tyler
  • Black Friday

Known For

  • Hercules in New York
  • Murder, She Wrote
  • A Christmas Carol: The Musical
  • The Caller
  • Walking Across Egypt
  • Magnum, P.I.
  • Hill Street Blues
  • The Sisters
  • Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
  • Rescue Me
  • The People Across the Lake
  • The ABC Afterschool Special
  • Sex & Mrs. X
  • Miracle in the Woods
  • Trapped in Space
  • By Dawn's Early Light
  • Grace & Glorie
  • Strange Voices
  • Sin of Innocence
  • Harvest of Fire
  • Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
  • The Runaway
  • Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes

Filmography

2014
2008
2007
2007
2005
2004
2004
2001
2001
2000
2000
1999
1998
1997
1997
1996
1996
1994
Sweet Justice (TV Series)
1994
Heaven Help Us (TV Series)
1994
1993
1993
1992
1992
1991
1990
1990
W.I.O.U. (TV Series)
1989
1989
Nightingales (TV Series)
1988
1988
1988
1987
1987
1987
A Year in the Life (TV Series)
1987
1987
1986
1986
L.A. Law (TV Series)
1986
1985
1985
Half Nelson (TV Series)
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
1984
Paper Dolls (TV Series)
1984
Cover Up (TV Series)
1984
Maximum Security (TV Series)
1984
1983
Bay City Blues (TV Series)
1982
Fame (TV Series)
1982
1981
1981
Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
1981
1980
Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)
1979
1979
Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series)
1978
1978
The Paper Chase (TV Series)
1976
Family (TV Series)
1975
1972
1970
1964
NET Playhouse (TV Series)
1951

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