Alex Segal

Alex Segal
Alex Segal
Born	July 1, 1915
Died	August 22, 1977 (aged 62)
Occupation(s)	Director, producer
Years active	1949–76
Children	Jonathan Segal

Alex Segal (July 1, 1915 – August 22, 1977) was an American television director, television producer, and film director.^[2]

Career

Segal directed more than 25 different television programs, including The United States Steel Hour^[3] and Celanese Theater (1951–52), between his debut as a director on Starring Boris Karloff (1949) and his death in 1977. Segal directed some films, including Joy in the Morning in 1965.

He received several Emmy nominations for his directing in the 1950s and won a Primetime Emmy for his TV directorship of Death of a Salesman in 1966.^{[citation needed]} Segal also served as chairman of the Division of Drama at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

As director

Year	Title	Notes
1949	Volume One	1 episode
1949	Starring Boris Karloff
1949–1950	Actors Studio	4 episodes
1950–1951	Pulitzer Prize Playhouse	3 episodes
1951–1952	Celanese Theatre	16 episodes
1952	Columbia University Seminar
1953–1954	The Campbell Playhouse	2 episodes
1953–1958	The United States Steel Hour	11 episodes
1956	Ransom!
1956	Producers' Showcase	3 episodes
1958	Kraft Television Theatre	1 episode
1958–1961	The DuPont Show of the Month	6 episodes
1959	Playhouse 90	2 episodes
1960–1961	NBC Sunday Showcase	3 episodes
1961	Alcoa Premiere	1 episode
1963	Hedda Gabler	1 episode
	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	1 episode
	All the Way Home
1964	The Nurses	1 episode
1965	Joy in the Morning
1965	Harlow	Magna version starring Carol Lynley
1966	Death of a Salesman	TV movie
1966	ABC Stage 67	1 episode
1967	The Crucible	TV movie
1967	The Diary of Anne Frank	TV movie
1968	Certain Honorable Men	TV movie
1970	To Confuse the Angel	TV movie
1971	Decisions! Decisions!	TV movie
1973	The Lie	TV movie
1975	My Father's House	TV movie
1976	The Story of David	TV movie
1976	Rich Man, Poor Man Book II	TV miniseries

As producer

Celanese Theatre (1951–1952; 15 episodes)
Producers' Showcase (1956; 3 episodes)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)

References

^ Crosby, Joan (November 23, 1978). "TV Scout Reports". Abilene Reporter-News. Abilene, Texas. p. 33. Retrieved June 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Alex Segal". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009.
^ "TV Guide's Gold Medal Awards". TV Guide. April 16, 1954. p. 6. Retrieved May 29, 2022.

External links

Alex Segal at IMDb

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[1] Crosby, Joan (November 23, 1978). "TV Scout Reports". Abilene Reporter-News. Abilene, Texas. p. 33. Retrieved June 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Alex Segal". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009.

[3] "TV Guide's Gold Medal Awards". TV Guide. April 16, 1954. p. 6. Retrieved May 29, 2022.

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s	Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
1960s	Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960) George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961) Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (1962) Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963) Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964) Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966) Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967) Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968) David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970) Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971) Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972) Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973) Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974) Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975) David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976) David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977) Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978) Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
1980s	Roger Young for "Cop" (1980) Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981) Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982) Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983) Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984) Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985) Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986) Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987) Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988) Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
1990s	Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990) Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991) Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992) Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993) Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994) Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996) Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997) Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998) Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
2000s	Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000) Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001) Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002) Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003) Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004) J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005) Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006) Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007) Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008) Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
2010s	Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010) Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011) Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012) David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013) Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014) David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017) Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018) Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)
2020s	Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020) Jessica Hobbs for "War" (2021) Hwang Dong-hyuk for "Red Light, Green Light" (2022) Mark Mylod for "Connor's Wedding" (2023) Frederick E. O. Toye for "Crimson Sky" (2024)

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