Fielder Cook

Fielder Cook

1923-03-09 Atlanta, Georgia, USA 39 Credits

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,...

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The Member of the Wedding

1997

Director

5.5
Directing

In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Cars...

A Special Friendship

A Special Friendship

1987

Director

Directing

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...

Seize the Day

Seize the Day

1986

Director

5.0
Directing

Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as ...

Why Me?

Why Me?

1984

Director

5.4
Directing

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.

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Will There Really Be a Morning?

1983

Director

7.0
Directing

This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Family Reunion

Family Reunion

1981

Director

8.0
Directing

Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her...

Gauguin the Savage

Gauguin the Savage

1980

Director

Directing

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to aban...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979

Director

4.2
Directing

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 ...

Too Far to Go

Too Far to Go

1979

Director

1.0
Directing

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For ...

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978

Director

9.0
Directing

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...

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

1976

Director

5.8
Directing

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

1976

Director

6.0
Directing

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 tha...

Valley Forge

Valley Forge

1975

Director

Directing

George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

1975

Director

6.0
Directing

A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.

This Is the West That Was

This Is the West That Was

1974

Director

Directing

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.

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

1973

Director

6.8
Directing

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 pro...

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1973

Director

6.5
Directing

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The Hands of Cormac Joyce

The Hands of Cormac Joyce

1972

Director

5.0
Directing

A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.

Harvey

Harvey

1972

Director

6.8
Directing

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 plan...

Eagle in a Cage

Eagle in a Cage

1972

Director

5.0
Directing

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

1971

Director

7.2
Directing

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 th...

Neighbors

Neighbors

1971

Director

Directing

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 equal...

Enemies

Enemies

1971

Director

Directing

A humble and long-suffering New York waiter finally turns the tables on a regular, insufferable customer who delights in pestering him about the servi...

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

1971

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.

The Price

The Price

1971

Director

Directing

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. H...

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

1971

Director

8.0
Directing

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.

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall

1969

Director

Directing

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 ...

Teacher, Teacher

Teacher, Teacher

1969

Director

Directing

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...

Prudence and the Pill

Prudence and the Pill

1968

Director

5.7
Directing

Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid,...

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968

Director

5.8
Directing

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

Brigadoon

Brigadoon

1966

Producer, Director

7.0
Producing Directing

Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966

Producer, Director

7.1
Producing Directing

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 ...

Big Deal in Laredo

1962

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.

The Farmer's Daughter

1962

Director

Directing

Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she i...

The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

1961

Director

Directing

Teleplay adaptation of Daniel Keyes' noted short story “Flowers for Algernon,” about a gentle, disabled young man who undergoes a highly experimental ...

A String of Beads

A String of Beads

1961

Director

Directing

An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.

Home Is the Hero

Home Is the Hero

1959

Director

Directing

This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization. The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter...

Patterns

Patterns

1956

Director

7.2
Directing

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Br...

Patterns

Patterns

1955

Director

7.0
Directing

"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. Fred Staples...