Fielder Cook

Fielder Cook

Nacimiento : 1923-03-09, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Muerte : 2003-06-20

Perfil

Fielder Cook

Películas

The Member of the Wedding
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 Carson McCullers' classic novel, which has seen previous adaptations for both stage and screen.
A Special Friendship
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.
Aprovecha el dia
Director
Un hombre de mediana edad que acaba de perder su empleo es ayudado económicamente por su mujer, que quiere divorciarse de él. Su padre le niega un préstamo y, desesperado, decide mudarse a Nueva York.
Why Me?
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?
Director
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Family Reunion
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 relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
Gauguin the Savage
Director
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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 and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Too Far to Go
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 behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Director
Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor, are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrigs' relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. [imdb]
La bella y la bestia
Director
Adaptación televisiva del célebre cuento de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, con George C. Scott (nominado al Emmy) en el papel de Bestia.
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
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 that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Valley Forge
Director
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
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
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
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 prove who he is.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Director
Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Director
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
Harvey
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 plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Eagle in a Cage
Director
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Director
The Walton family is preparing for Christmas in the early 1930s. It's Christmas Eve, and they are waiting for Daddy Walton to come home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. Since he is late, everyone is worried and over the radio the mother and grandparents hear about an overturned bus and hurt travelers but keep this news from the rest of the family. The story is really a coming of age story about the oldest son John-Boy who must cut down the tree with his grandfather since his father isn't home and is eventually told about his missing father and sets out to find him. An all round heartwarming story, especially if you are a fan of The Waltons. A simple story about a simple family in simple times. Great family entertainment!
Neighbors
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 equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Executive Producer
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Director
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
The Price
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. His wife, Esther, his brother, Walter, and a canny furniture dealer have their own agendas. Victor must finally deal with his sacrifice.
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
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.
Teacher, Teacher
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 Freddie is mentally retarded (an outstanding performance by retarded actor Billy Schulman). A black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the child, and becomes a second role model for him.
¡Prudencia...! Prudencia
Director
Un hombre cambia las píldoras anticonceptivas de su mujer por aspirinas; quiere que ella se quede embarazada de su amante.
Cómo salvar un matrimonio
Director
Un soltero impenitente decide salvar el matrimonio de un amigo demostrando que todas las amantes son infieles. La cosa se complica cuando el soltero ofrece instalar a la amante en un lujoso apartamento, cosa que ella considera una proposición de matrimonio.
Brigadoon
Producer
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 all who find it.
Brigadoon
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 all who find it.
El destino también juega
Producer
De camino a una pequeña granja de Texas, Meredith (Henry Fonda), Mary (Joanne Woodward) y su hijo de diez años, se quedan a descansar en un hotel de Laredo. Jugadores de todo el mundo, incluyendo al multimillonario Henry Drummond (Jason Robards, Jr.), se reúnen allí para participar en la partida de póker más importante del Oeste. Meredith, aficionado al juego, a pesar de las recomendaciones de su esposa, cae en la tentación y pierde todos los ahorros familiares. De repente, sufre un ataque cardíaco y, entonces, Mary se ve obligada a terminar la mano con el resto de los hombres. ¡Están en juego 20.000 dólares!
El destino también juega
Director
De camino a una pequeña granja de Texas, Meredith (Henry Fonda), Mary (Joanne Woodward) y su hijo de diez años, se quedan a descansar en un hotel de Laredo. Jugadores de todo el mundo, incluyendo al multimillonario Henry Drummond (Jason Robards, Jr.), se reúnen allí para participar en la partida de póker más importante del Oeste. Meredith, aficionado al juego, a pesar de las recomendaciones de su esposa, cae en la tentación y pierde todos los ahorros familiares. De repente, sufre un ataque cardíaco y, entonces, Mary se ve obligada a terminar la mano con el resto de los hombres. ¡Están en juego 20.000 dólares!
Big Deal in Laredo
Executive Producer
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Big Deal in Laredo
Director
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
The Farmer's Daughter
Director
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Congressman Glenn Morley. Holstrom endears herself to the genteel Morley, and begins to show a surprising aptitude for politics herself. She launches a campaign for Congress, and, as right-wing reactionaries plot against her, a romance develops.
A String of Beads
Director
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
Home Is the Hero
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 Macken who also plays the role of the ex-convict Paddo in this screen version. Direction is by J. Fielder Cook. Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man, his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it. He is disillusioned and changed. His son Willie (Arthur Kennedy) walks with a limp that keeps him too self-conscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams. While other people come in and out of Paddo's life, from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker, it is Paddo's son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his father's life.
Patterns
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 Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
Patterns
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 is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.