Fielder Cook
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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.
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Valley Forge (1975)
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Harvey (1972)
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
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Patterns (1955)
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Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971)
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Prudence and the Pill (1968)
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960)
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The Rivalry (1975)
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978)
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Too Far to Go (1979)
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Patterns (1956)
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Teacher, Teacher (1969)
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (1971)
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
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Home Is the Hero (1959)
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A String of Beads (1961)
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Why Me? (1984)
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Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall (1969)
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Seize the Day (1986)
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Family Reunion (1981)
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Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
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The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972)
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep (1975)
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Brigadoon (1966)
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This Is the West That Was (1974)
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Beauty and the Beast (1976)
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The Member of the Wedding (1997)
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Gauguin the Savage (1980)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
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Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
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A Special Friendship (1987)
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The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon (1961)
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The Farmer's Daughter (1962)
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Big Deal in Laredo (1962)
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Neighbors (1971)
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Enemies (1971)
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The Price (1971)
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