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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.
Most Popular Fielder Cook Trailers
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15 October 1966
Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map.
28 April 1979
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
22 April 1976
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
11 November 1971
A humble and long-suffering New York waiter finally turns the tables on a regular, insufferable customer who delights in pestering him about the service.
12 March 1979
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage.
22 February 1961
Teleplay adaptation of Daniel Keyes' noted short story “Flowers for Algernon,” about a gentle, disabled young man who undergoes a highly experimental treatment to increase his mental capacity.
19 December 1971
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away.
31 March 1987
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery.
09 January 1972
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
12 January 1955
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast.
07 October 1962
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
14 December 1973
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
15 January 1978
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor.
17 December 1974
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
08 January 1975
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
23 May 1968
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills.
14 January 1962
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school.
03 February 1971
After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate.
12 March 1984
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
03 December 1976
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
08 June 1966
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
17 January 1968
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
06 June 1973
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
09 September 1986
Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life.
18 November 1971
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem.
27 March 1956
To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.
22 February 1983
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
03 March 1959
This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization.
17 November 1972
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
29 January 1997
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly.
05 February 1969
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded.
07 February 1961
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
03 December 1975
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
22 March 1972
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter.
11 October 1981
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project.
21 November 1969
A down-on-his-luck writer publishes a best-selling, but lurid novel under a pseudonym and discovers that his fictional personae has suddenly appeared and taken on a life of his own.
18 May 1960
Rod Serling's teleplay depicting the struggles of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto in the months before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
29 April 1980
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
12 December 1975
A television adaptation of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Abraham Lincoln did verbal battle with Stephen Douglas, his opponent for a U.
22 October 1971
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
01 February 1971
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
