Fielder Cook

Directing·Mar 9, 1923·Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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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 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.

Film	Credit
TThe Member of the Wedding1997 · Director	Director
A Special Friendship1987 · Director	Director
Seize the Day1986 · Director	Director
Why Me?1984 · Director	Director
Will There Really Be a Morning?1983 · Director	Director
Family Reunion1981 · Director	Director
Gauguin the Savage1980 · Director	Director
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings1979 · Director	Director
Too Far to Go1979 · Director	Director
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story1978 · Director	Director
Beauty and the Beast1976 · Director	Director
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys1976 · Director	Director
The Rivalry1975 · Director	Director
Valley Forge1975 · Director	Director
Miles To Go Before I Sleep1975 · Director	Director
This Is the West That Was1974 · Director	Director
Miracle on 34th Street1973 · Director	Director
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler1973 · Director	Director
The Hands of Cormac Joyce1972 · Director	Director
Harvey1972 · Director	Director
Eagle in a Cage1972 · Director	Director
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story1971 · Director	Director
Neighbors1971 · Director	Director
Enemies1971 · Director	Director
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann1971 · Director	Director
The Price1971 · Director	Director
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?1971 · Director	Director
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall1969 · Director	Director
Teacher, Teacher1969 · Director	Director
Prudence and the Pill1968 · Director	Director
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life1968 · Director	Director
Brigadoon1966 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
A Big Hand for the Little Lady1966 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
BBig Deal in Laredo1962 · Director	Director
TThe Farmer's Daughter1962 · Director	Director
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon1961 · Director	Director
A String of Beads1961 · Director	Director
In the Presence of Mine Enemies1960 · Director	Director
Home Is the Hero1959 · Director	Director
Patterns1956 · Director	Director
Patterns1955 · Director	Director