Fielder Cook

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 Cooks 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 codirector From the MixedUp Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler 1973 Eagle in a Cage and Seize the Day