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Fielder Cook

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
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Gender
Male

Birthday
March 9, 1923 (103 years old)

Place of Birth
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Fielder Cook

Biography

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.

Known For

Directing

1997The Member of the Wedding...Director
1987A Special Friendship...Director
1986Seize the Day...Director
1985Evergreen...Director
1984Why Me?...Director
1983Will There Really Be a Morning?...Director
1981Family Reunion...Director
1981Family Reunion...Director
1980Gauguin the Savage...Director
1979I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings...Director
1979Too Far to Go...Director
1978A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story...Director
1976Beauty and the Beast...Director
1976Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys...Director
1975The Rivalry...Director
1975Valley Forge...Director
1975Miles To Go Before I Sleep...Director
1974This Is the West That Was...Director
1973Miracle on 34th Street...Director
1973From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler...Director
1972The Hands of Cormac Joyce...Director
1972Harvey...Director
1972Eagle in a Cage...Director
1971The Homecoming: A Christmas Story...Director
1971Neighbors...Director
1971Enemies...Director
1971Goodbye, Raggedy Ann...Director
1971The Price...Director
1971Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?...Director
1969Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall...Director
1969Teacher, Teacher...Director
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre...Director
1968Prudence and the Pill...Director
1968How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life...Director
1966Brigadoon...Director
1966A Big Hand for the Little Lady...Director
1965Mister Roberts...Director
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre...Director
1963Espionage...Director
1962Big Deal in Laredo...Director
1962Going My Way...Director
1962The Eleventh Hour...Director
1962The Farmer's Daughter...Director
1961Ben Casey...Director
1961The Defenders...Director
1961The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon...Director
1961A String of Beads...Director
1960In the Presence of Mine Enemies...Director
1959Home Is the Hero...Director
1956The Kaiser Aluminum Hour...Director
1956Patterns...Director
1955Patterns...Director
1954Climax!...Director
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame...Director
1950Lux Video Theatre...Director
1948Studio One...Director

Production

1971Goodbye, Raggedy Ann...Executive Producer
1966Brigadoon...Producer
1966A Big Hand for the Little Lady...Producer
1962Big Deal in Laredo...Executive Producer

Creator

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann...Creator

Acting