Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer and producer.
Born in New York City [1], Seidelman made his screen directorial debut with Hercules in New York, a 1970 comedy-action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Additional credits include The Caller, Walking Across Egypt, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, and The Sisters.
Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television, directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, and A Christmas Carol; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several ABC Afterschool Specials. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards.
Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others.
