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Fielder Cook
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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 spawne…
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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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1997
The Member of the Wedding
Movie Director
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1987
A Special Friendship
Movie Director
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1986
Seize the Day
Movie Director
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1985
Evergreen
TV show Director
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1984
Why Me?
Movie Director
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1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Movie Director
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1981
Family Reunion
TV show Director
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1981
Family Reunion
Movie Director
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1980
Gauguin the Savage
Movie Director
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1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Movie Director
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1979
Too Far to Go
Movie Director
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1978
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie Director
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1976
Beauty and the Beast
Movie Director
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1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie Director
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1975
The Rivalry
Movie Director
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1975
Valley Forge
Movie Director
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1975
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Movie Director
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1974
This Is the West That Was
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1973
Miracle on 34th Street
Movie Director
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1973
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Movie Director
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1972
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Movie Director
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1972
Harvey
Movie Director
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1972
Eagle in a Cage
Movie Director
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1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
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1971
Neighbors
Movie Director
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1971
Enemies
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1971
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
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1971
The Price
Movie Director
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1971
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Movie Director
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1969
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Movie Director
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1969
Teacher, Teacher
Movie Director
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Director
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1968
Prudence and the Pill
Movie Director
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1968
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie Director
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1966
Brigadoon
Movie Producer
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1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie Producer
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1965
Mister Roberts
TV show Director
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1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV show Director
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1963
Espionage
TV show Director
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1962
Big Deal in Laredo
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