
Fielder Cook
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-03-09
Day of Death
2003-06-20 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Fielder Cook
Biography
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.
Known For
Crew
(1997)
The Member of the Wedding
Director
(1987)
A Special Friendship
Director
(1986)
Seize the Day
Director
(1984)
Why Me?
Director
(1983)
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Director
(1981)
Family Reunion
Director
(1980)
Gauguin the Savage
Director
(1979)
Too Far to Go
Director
(1979)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Director
(1978)
(1976)
Beauty and the Beast
Director
(1976)
(1975)
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Director
(1975)
Valley Forge
Director
(1974)
This Is the West That Was
Director
(1973)
(1973)
Miracle on 34th Street
Director
(1972)
Eagle in a Cage
Director
(1972)
Harvey
Director
(1972)
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Director
(1971)
(1971)
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Director, Executive Producer
(1971)
The Price
Director
(1971)
Enemies
Director
(1971)
Neighbors
Director
(1971)
(1969)
Teacher, Teacher
Director
(1969)
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Director
(1968)
Prudence and the Pill
Director
(1968)
(1966)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Director, Producer
(1966)
Brigadoon
Producer, Director
(1962)
The Farmer's Daughter
Director
(1962)
Big Deal in Laredo
Director, Executive Producer
(1961)
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Director
(1961)
A String of Beads
Director
(1959)
Home Is the Hero
Director
(1956)
Patterns
Director
(1955)
Patterns
Director