Alfred R. Kelman

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Alfred R. Kelman (born May 17, 1936 in New York City , United States ) is an American producer and director of documentaries and feature films.

Live and act

Born in the Bronx and raised in Boston, Kelman studied at Boston University from 1954 to 1958 and graduated in mass communication (1959). He continued his studies in communication research with a scholarship with the aim of obtaining a master’s degree. During this time he got to know television from the bottom up. As early as 1962, as director of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Boston, he had devoted himself entirely to television information and appeared as a producer and director of live TV shows. As a result of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy , Kelman conducted the live coverage from the Kennedy estate in Hyannis Port. As a result of the great race riots among America's blacks, Kelman managed to get an interview with Martin Luther King in 1965 . This formed the heart of the documentary " Martin Luther King in Boston ".

With his one-hour documentary about the life and work of the famous American writer Eugene O'Neill , The Face of a Genius , produced in 1965 , director Kelman received a nomination for an Oscar in the category of best documentary in 1967 . In 1968 he served as an executive at Medcom, a publicly traded company dedicated to disseminating medical knowledge to doctors and the public. With the " Medical Knowledge For Man " program, Alfred Kelman produced over 60 half-hour information sequences on the subject of health and medicine as part of a morning TV series of the same name. Medical education continued to be Kelman's greatest interest. As producer, director and co-creator of the Medcom documentary series " The Body Human " (1977 ff.), Which attempted to explore the relationship between biochemistry, medicine and human behavior, Kelman opened the door to the television information series Lifeline , a documentary series on NBC . This was followed by a plethora of nominations and victories for the Primetime Emmys award between 1978 and 1984 , especially for individual films in the The Body Human series. Kelman was also a three-time winner of the Directors Guild of America Award (DGA Award), also for producing several Body Human episodes.

After the end of this highly regarded series and the sale of Medcom the end of 1983 Alfred R. Kelman joined the classic television entertainment production and put one or the other conventional feature film forth so as yet in 1984 a TV version of the Charles Dickens -Klassikers A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as the refined curmudgeon and curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge. In later years Kelman produced not only dramas and melodramas, but also films with historical backgrounds, such as The Last Days of Patton, Napoleon and Josephine - a love story and Stauffenberg - conspiracy against Hitler . In 1993 he stopped his production activities and withdrew more and more into private life. In the new millennium he dedicated himself as a screenwriter to a trilogy with autobiographical features, which should have the following titles: "Hayfever", "At Water's Edge" and "Swan's Way". In addition, Alfred R. Kelman was active as an artist; some of his pencil drawings were shown at the Washington CT Gallery in February 2016. From November 2016 to March 2017, 18 drawings by Kelman were exhibited in a private New York club.

Academic awards

  • 1958: BS Boston University, cum laude. WGBH Graduate Scholarship
  • 1959: MS Boston University, Communications Research
  • 1983: Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Public Communication, Boston University
  • 2009: Proclamation of Appreciation, Village of Sagaponack, NY

Television awards

  • 1978: The Body Human: The Miracle Months, The Vital Connection, The Red River (Primetime Emmy)
  • 1979: Lifeline (Primetime Emmy)
  • 1980: The Body Human: The Magic Sense (Primetime Emmy)
  • 1980: The Body Human: The Magic Sense (DGA Award)
  • 1981: The Body Human: The Loving Process - Women (Daytime Emmy)
  • 1981: The Body Human: The Body Beautiful (DGA Award)
  • 1981: The Body Human: The Bionic Breakthrough (Primetime Emmy)
  • 1983: The Body Human: The Living Code (Primetime Emmy)
  • 1985: The Body Human: The Journey Within (DGA Award)

as well as numerous other Emmy nominations.

Filmography

As a producer - until 1984 of documentaries, from 1984 of feature films - unless otherwise stated:

  • 1966: The Face of a Genius (also director)
  • 1977–1984: The Body Human (TV series, also director)
    • The Miracle Months
    • The Vital Connection
    • The Red River
    • The Magic Sense
    • The Body Beautiful
    • The Facts for Boys
    • The facts for girls
    • The Sexes
    • The Sexes II
    • Becoming a woman
    • Becoming a man
    • The Bionic Breakthrough
    • The Loving Process
    • The Living Code
    • The Journey Within
  • 1984: The Windsor Papers - To Catch A King
  • 1984: A Christmas Carol
  • 1986: The Last Days of Patton
  • 1986: The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
  • 1987: A Special Friendship
  • 1987: Napoleon and Josephine - a love story (Napoleon & Josephine: A Love Story) (TV series)
  • 1988: Onassis - The Richest Man In The World
  • 1990: Stauffenberg - Conspiracy against Hitler (The Plot To Kill Hitler)
  • 1992: Revenge of Amy Fisher (Amy Fisher: My Story)
  • 1993: A Child at Any Price - The Story of Arlette Schweitzer (Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story)

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personal data
SURNAME Kelman, Alfred R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States