Charles S. Dubin
Charles Dubin Samuel ( born February 1, 1919 in New York City; † 5 September 2011 in Brentwood, California ) was an American television director. He was considered a veteran of the U.S. television for which he directed about 100 different formats.
Life
Dubin, born in 1919 in New York City, wanted to become an opera singer. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1941, he took with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse production and directing lessons. He then worked in New York as an actor, director and manager of theaters. Since 1950 he worked as a director ( first as associate director for ABC) for television. Since 1951, he led his own responsibility in live broadcast television shows directed, including in successful classics like Pulitzer Prize Playhouse.
In 1952, he came as an alleged Communist for the first time on the blacklist and could only work again in 1955 as a director. In 1958 he was director of the popular quiz show Twenty-One, but was dismissed by NBC because it 22 times refused to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities, which led to a new listing on the black list. In the equally smoldering at this time scandal surrounding the quiz show he was not involved, and later he also made it clear at that time to have been communist. It was not until 1963 he was allowed to direct. From now on, he was an institution on U.S. television for more than 25 years. In 1966 he moved to California. In 1991, he retired from professional life. Dubin died at the age of 92 years. His daughter Zan Dubin Scott is a publicist.
Dubin had an early career highlight when he accompanied the Bolshoi Ballet on their U.S. tour in 1959. Later he directed series such as Big Valley, The Men from Shiloh Ranch, Sanford and Son, Cannon, Kung Fu, The Chief, The Rockford Files - Just call, makeup and pistols, Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O ( in this series, he had his only guest appearance as an actor ), Roots - The Next Generations, Lou Grant, Hotel, Cagney & Lacey, Trapper John, MD, The man from another planet, Sledge Hammer! and Matlock.
For subsequent Knock Over the series Kojak 1974 he won the Directors Guild of America Award for a dramatic TV series in the night program. Twice Dubin was also responsible for the series M * A * S * H nominated, with which he was most associated. For the episodes Point of View (1979) and Period of Adjustment (1980 ), he was also nominated as 1982 Pressure Point, even for an Emmy Award. With 44 episodes of M * A * S * H, he led in more episodes than any other director director of the series. In 1990, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Square One, for which he was nominated again in 1992.
Charles S. Dubin died on 5 September 2011 at the age of 92 years.