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James Sheldon
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Director Born: November 12, 1921 in New York City, NY Biography:James Sheldon may never have directed a feature film, in a career of 50 years behind the camera, but he practically wrote the book on how to direct for television. Along with such contemporaries as Marc Daniels and Charles Dubin, he was devising, inventing, and perfecting the field as he went along, from the dawn of commercial TV in 1948 right to the end of the 1990s. Sheldon's aspirations as a director began astonishingly early, in his early teens when he was brought by his father to see Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad doing a Wagner opera at the Metropolitan Opera. He was dazzled by the sound and the color and the sets and, knowing that he couldn't sing or play an instrument, saw directing as his way of contributing creatively to a performance. It took Sheldon a few years to get near that goal; a job as an usher at NBC helped get him into the general vicinity of performance work, and by his... Full Biography
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