
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.

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Family Reunion

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

Mister Roberts

Patterns

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

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Patterns

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Brigadoon

Miracle on 34th Street

Harvey

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

The Eleventh Hour

The Defenders

Beauty and the Beast

Going My Way

Ben Casey

Why Me?

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

Prudence and the Pill

Eagle in a Cage

The Hands of Cormac Joyce

Studio One

Seize the Day

Evergreen

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Climax!

Too Far to Go

Teacher, Teacher

Home Is the Hero

The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

This Is the West That Was

A String of Beads

Gauguin the Savage

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

The Price

Enemies

A Special Friendship

Valley Forge

Neighbors

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Espionage

Family Reunion