Fielder Cook
Directing
Born 1923-03-09
Died 2003-06-20
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
57 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
56 credits
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Climax!
The Defenders
Ben Casey
Studio One
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Espionage
Lux Video Theatre
The Eleventh Hour
Going My Way
Mister Roberts
Evergreen
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Valley Forge
Harvey
Family Reunion
Seize the Day
The Kaiser Aluminum Hour
Patterns
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Prudence and the Pill
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Patterns
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Too Far to Go
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
The Farmer's Daughter
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Miracle on 34th Street
This Is the West That Was
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
The Member of the Wedding
Teacher, Teacher
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Gauguin the Savage
Family Reunion
Eagle in a Cage
The Rivalry
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Why Me?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Home Is the Hero
Beauty and the Beast
The Price
A String of Beads
Brigadoon
A Special Friendship
Big Deal in Laredo
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Neighbors
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Enemies
Acting
1 credit
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