Fielder Cook
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 9, 1923
- Died
- June 20, 2003 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Member of the Wedding
Movie · Director
A Special Friendship
Movie · Director
Seize the Day
Movie · Director
Evergreen
TV · Director · 1 ep
Why Me?
Movie · Director
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Movie · Director
Family Reunion
Movie · Director
Family Reunion
TV · Director · 2 eps
Gauguin the Savage
Movie · Director
Too Far to Go
Movie · Director
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Movie · Director
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie · Director
Beauty and the Beast
Movie · Director
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie · Director
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Movie · Director
Valley Forge
Movie · Director
The Rivalry
Movie · Director
This Is the West That Was
Movie · Director
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Movie · Director
Miracle on 34th Street
Movie · Director
Eagle in a Cage
Movie · Director
Harvey
Movie · Director
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Movie · Director
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Movie · Director
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Movie · Director
The Price
Movie · Director
Enemies
Movie · Director
Neighbors
Movie · Director
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Movie · Director
Teacher, Teacher
Movie · Director
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Movie · Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · Director · 1 ep
Prudence and the Pill
Movie · Director
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie · Director
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie · Director
Brigadoon
Movie · Director
Mister Roberts
TV · Director · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · Director · 1 ep
Espionage
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie · Director
Big Deal in Laredo
Movie · Director
The Eleventh Hour
TV · Director · 1 ep
Going My Way
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Movie · Director
A String of Beads
Movie · Director
The Defenders
TV · Director · 1 ep
Ben Casey
TV · Director · 5 eps
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Movie · Director
Home Is the Hero
Movie · Director
Patterns
Movie · Director
The Kaiser Aluminum Hour
TV · Director · 1 ep
Patterns
Movie · Director
Climax!
TV · Director · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · Director · 7 eps
Lux Video Theatre
TV · Director · 60 eps
Studio One
TV · Director · 3 eps