Fielder Cook

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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 movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Cook graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta, 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 multiple episodes of such anthology series as Lux Video Theater, The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Playhouse 90, Omnibus, and Kraft Television Theatre. In later years he helmed 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, and Will There Really Be a Morning?, among 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 feature film credits include A Big Hand for the Little Lady, How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life), Prudence and the Pill, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Eagle in a Cage, and Seize the Day.

Cook died in Charlotte, North Carolina from complications from a stroke.

Selected filmography

Eagle in a Cage (1972)

Awards and nominations

1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear Award (Home Is the Hero, nominee)^[1]
1963 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama (Big Deal in Laredo on The DuPont Show of the Month, nominee)
1967 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety or Music (Brigadoon, winner)
1967 Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Program (Brigadoon, winner)
1969 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama (Teacher, Teacher, nominee)
1971 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama (The Price on Hallmark Hall of Fame, winner)
1972 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama (The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, nominee)
1976 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Beacon Hill, nominee)
1977 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Special Program (Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, nominee)
1987 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Drama (Seize the Day, nominee)

References

↑ "IMDb.com: Awards for Home Is the Hero". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2010-01-09.

External links

Fielder Cook at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Fielder Cook

Patterns (1956)
Home Is the Hero (1959)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
Eagle in a Cage (1972)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
Valley Forge (1975)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Family Reunion (1981)
Seize the Day (1986)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Jack Smight (1959)
Robert Mulligan (1960)
George Schaefer (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner (1962)
Stuart Rosenberg (1963)
Tom Gries (1964)
Paul Bogart (1965)
Sydney Pollack (1966)
Alex Segal (1967)
Lee H. Katzin (1968)
David Greene (1969)
Paul Bogart (1970)
Daryl Duke / Fielder Cook (1971)
Alexander Singer / Tom Gries (1972)
Jerry Thorpe / Joseph Sargent (1973)
John Korty / Robert Butler (1974)
Bill Bain (1975)
David Greene (1976)
David Greene (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper (1979)
Roger Young (1980)
Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)
Harry Harris (1982)
Jeff Bleckner (1983)
Corey Allen (1984)
Karen Arthur (1985)
Georg Stanford Brown (1986)
Gregory Hoblit (1987)
Mark Tinker (1988)
Robert Altman (1989)
Thomas Carter / Scott Winant (1990)
Thomas Carter (1991)
Eric Laneuville (1992)
Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)
Daniel Sackheim (1994)
Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Jeremy Kagan (1996)
Mark Tinker (1997)
Mark Tinker / Paris Barclay (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000)
Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001)
Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002)
Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)
Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004)
J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005)
Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)
Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007)
Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008)
Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010)
Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011)
Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012)
David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 42046621 LCCN: n85199224 ISNI: 0000 0000 6302 1205 GND: 173633900 BNF: cb140890205

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Name	Cook, Fielder
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Short description	American film and television director
Date of birth	March 9, 1923
Place of birth
Date of death	June 20, 2003
Place of death

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