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,...
Complete Filmography
The Member of the Wedding
1997
Director
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
1987
Director
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
1986
Director
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?
1984
Director
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?
1983
Director
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Family Reunion
1981
Director
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
1980
Director
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
1979
Director
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
1979
Director
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
1978
Director
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
1976
Director
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
1976
Director
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
1975
Director
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Miles To Go Before I Sleep
1975
Director
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
1974
Director
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
1973
Director
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
1973
Director
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
1972
Director
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.

Harvey
1972
Director
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
1972
Director
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1971
Director, Executive Producer
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.

The Price
1971
Director
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?
1971
Director
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
1969
Director
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
1969
Director
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
1968
Director
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
1968
Director
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

Brigadoon
1966
Producer, Director
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
1966
Producer, Director
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
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
The Farmer's Daughter
1962
Director
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
1961
Director
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
1961
Director
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.

Home Is the Hero
1959
Director
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
1956
Director
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
1955
Director
"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...