Charles S. Dubin

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Charles Samuel Dubin (born February 1, 1919 in New York City , † September 5, 2011 in Brentwood , California ) was an American television director . He was considered a veteran of US television, for which he directed around 100 different formats.

Life

Dubin, born in New York City in 1919, initially wanted to be an opera singer. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1941, he took production and directing lessons with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse . He then worked in New York as an actor, director and manager in theaters. Since 1950 he worked as a director (initially as an associate director for ABC ) for television. Since 1951 he has directed live television shows, including successful classics such as the Pulitzer Prize Playhouse .

In 1952 he was blacklisted for the first time as an alleged communist and was only able to work as a director again in 1955. In 1958, he directed the popular quiz show Twenty-One , but was fired from NBC for refusing to testify to the Un-American Activities Committee 22 times , which resulted in a blacklisting. He was not involved in the quiz show scandal, which was also smoldering at the time, and he later made it clear that he was not a communist at the time. It was not until 1963 that he was allowed to direct again. From now on it was an institution of US television for more than 25 years. In 1966 he moved to California. In 1991 he retired from professional life. Dubin died at the age of 92. His daughter Zan Dubin Scott is a publicist.

Dubin had an early career high when he accompanied the Bolshoi Ballet on their US tour in 1959 . He later directed shows such as Big Valley , The People at Shiloh Ranch , Sanford and Son , Cannon , Kung Fu , The Boss , Detective Rockford - Phone Call , Makeup and Guns , Charlie's Angels , Hawaii Five-Zero (in this series he also had his only guest appearance as an actor), Roots - The Next Generations , Lou Grant , Hotel , Cagney & Lacey , Trapper John, MD , The Man from Another Star , Sledge Hammer! and Matlock .

For the episode Knockover of the series Kojak - Operation in Manhattan , he won the 1974 Directors Guild of America Award for a dramatic TV series in the night program. Dubin was also nominated twice for the series M * A * S * H , with which he was most associated. He was also nominated for the Emmy Award for the episodes Point of View (1979) and Period of Adjustment (1980), as was the case for Pressure Point in 1982 . With 44 episodes of M * A * S * H, he directed more episodes than any other director on the series. In 1990 he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Square One , for which he was nominated again in 1992.

Charles S. Dubin died on September 5, 2011 at the age of 92.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charles S. Dubin (1919-2011) at MASH
  2. ^ Douglas Martin: Charles Dubin, Television Director, Is Dead at 92. In: The New York Times . September 9, 2011, accessed August 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Dubin, Charles S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dubin, Charles Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television director
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2011
Place of death Brentwood , California