Fielder Cook

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Fielder Cook also J. Fielder Cook (born March 9, 1923 in Atlanta , Georgia as James Fielder Cook , † June 20, 2003 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) was an American film director and producer . He made over 30 television films, some of which received the Emmy as television awards, and Cook also directed several feature films, including films like Highest Stake in Laredo or The Pill was to blame for everything .

life and career

James Fielder Cook was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1923 and grew up in Tampa, Florida. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and was an officer in the Navy during World War II.

From the medium's earliest days when dramas were performed live, Fielder Cook was one of the most respected directors on American television. He began his career with Lux Video Theater in 1950 and then worked at Kraft Television Theater, Playhouse 90 and The Kaiser Aluminum Hour .

An early hit was Patterns , a Rod Serling corporate world story that aired on NBC in 1955. It played Ed Begley and Everett Sloane . Cook won an Emmy for best television drama. After the television success, Rod Serling and Fielder Cook brought the film to the cinema as a remake a year later than Tomorrow Meets You .

In the 1960s, Cook directed episodes from The Defenders and The 50-Minute Hour series , won two Emmys to direct and produce Brigadoon for ABC .

Since 1966 he also worked again as a film director for US cinema. He was filming the western Highest Stake in Laredo , with Jason Robards , Joanne Woodward and Henry Fonda . In 1968, he directed the comedy Tenderly Snapping the Trap with actors like Dean Martin , Stella Stevens and Eli Wallach . And in the same year another romantic comedy of his premiered in the cinema: The pill was to blame for everything with Deborah Kerr and David Niven .

He won another Emmy Award for an adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Price for NBC in 1971, and in the same year he made The Homecoming: A Christmas Story , which became the basis for the hit family series The Waltons .

In 1973 he made the film The Mysterious Angel with Ingrid Bergman . In 1986 he shot his last film for the cinema. The film included an adaptation of Saul Bellows' The Business of Life Seize the Day starring Robin Williams .

When Fielder Cook died on June 20 in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was an award-winning director of films and television dramas. He was 80 years old.

Awards

  • 1959: Nomination for the Golden Bear - Berlin International Film Festival 1959 ( The Goliath of Galway )
  • 1963: Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama ( Big Deal in Laredo on The DuPont Show of the Month )
  • 1967: Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety or Music ( Brigadoon )
  • 1967: Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Program ( Brigadoon )
  • 1969: Emmy Award nomination in the category Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama ( Teacher, Teacher )
  • 1971: Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama ( The Price on Hallmark Hall of Fame )
  • 1972: Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama ( The Homecoming: A Christmas Story )
  • 1976: Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series ( Beacon Hill )
  • 1977: Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Directing in a Special Program category ( Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys )
  • 1987: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nomination in the Drama category ( Seize the Day )

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

Television films

  • 1966: Brigadoon
  • 1971: The Waltons (The Waltons)
  • 1976: Judge Horton's Biggest Case (Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys)
  • 1979: Too Far to Go
  • 1981: The Lady (Family Reunion)
  • 1983: The Life of the Frances Farmer (Will There Really Be a Morning?)
  • 1987: Friendship Without Borders (A Special Friendship)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary to Fielder Cook in: The New York Times, Fielder Cook, 80, Director Of Films and TV Dramas, June 30, 2003
  2. ↑ IMDb.com: Awards for Home Is the Hero . In: IMDb.com . Retrieved January 9, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Cook, fielder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, James Fielder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2003
Place of death Charlotte , North Carolina