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Director Born: March 9, 1923 in Atlanta, GA Death: June 20, 2003 in Charlotte, NC Biography:The cum laude holder of a B.A. in literature from Washington and Lee University, "Fielder Cook" continued his education as a major in Elizabethan Drama at the University of Birmingham (England, not Alabama). With these lofty credentials, Cook could have pursued a career as a theatrical director; instead, he chose to get in on the ground floor of the fledgling medium of television, beginning with "Lux Video Theater" in 1950. He functioned as producer and director on most of the prestigious live anthologies of TV's Golden Age, including The Kaiser/Aluminum Hour, "Kraft Theater", and "Playhouse 90". His direction of the original 1955 telecast of "Patterns" led to his being assigned the 1956 film version of the "Rod Serling" teleplay. Cook's subsequent film efforts were variable, to say the least: for every winner like "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" there was a failure like "How to Save a Marriage (And... Full Biography
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