Fielder Cook

Fielder Cook Fielder Cook also J. ( born March 9, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia as James Fielder Cook, † June 20, 2003 in Charlotte, North Carolina ) was an American film director and producer. He turned over 30 TV movies, some of which received the Emmy for TV Award and Cook also directed several movies, including movies such as for the Little Lady or The pill was to blame for everything.

Life and career

James Fielder Cook was born in 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Tampa, Florida. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and was an officer in the Navy during World War II.

From the earliest days of the medium, were performed as dramas live, Fielder Cook was one of the most respected directors in American television. He began his career in 1950 with Lux Video Theatre, and then worked on Kraft Television Theatre, Playhouse 90 and The Kaiser Aluminum Hour.

An early success was Patterns, a Rod Serling story about the corporate world, which aired on NBC in 1955. It played Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. Cook won an Emmy for best television game. After the hit TV series Rod Serling and Fielder Cook brought the film as a remake, a year later than the morning it hits you as a feature film to the cinema.

In the 1960s, Cook directed episodes of the series The Defenders and The 50 -Minute Hour, won two Emmys as a director and producer of Brigadoon for ABC.

Since 1966 he worked again as a film director for the American cinema. He turned the Western A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Jason Robards, Joanne Woodward and Henry Fonda. In 1968, he directed the comedy Affectionate the trap snaps shut with performers such as Dean Martin, Stella Stevens and Eli Wallach. And in the same year yet another romantic comedy from him debut in the cinema: The pill was guilty of everything with Deborah Kerr and David Niven.

He won another Emmy Award for an adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Price for NBC in 1971, and the same year he made The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which became the basis for the successful family series The Waltons.

In 1973 he turned to Ingrid Bergman the film The mysterious angel. In 1986 he made ​​his last film for the cinema. The film included an adaptation of Saul Bellow The business of life Seize the Day with Robin Williams.

As Fielder Cook died in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 20, he was an award-winning director of films and TV dramas. He was 80 years old.

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