Arthur Allan Seidelman

Biography

Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor. Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award…

Directed

1. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Director
2. Magnum, P.I. (1980) — Director
3. Hercules in New York (1970) — Director
4. Hill Street Blues (1981) — Director
5. L.A. Law (1986) — Director
6. A Christmas Carol (2004) — Director
7. Knots Landing (1979) — Director
8. The Caller (1987) — Director
9. Rescue Me (1992) — Director
10. Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004) — Director
11. The Sisters (2005) — Director
12. Sex & Mrs. X (2000) — Director
13. The People Across the Lake (1988) — Director
14. Trapped in Space (1994) — Director
15. Walking Across Egypt (1999) — Director
16. Miracle in the Woods (1997) — Director
17. Cover Up (1984) — Director
18. Harvest of Fire (1996) — Director
19. Kate's Secret (1986) — Director
20. Strange Voices (1987) — Director
21. The Paper Chase (1978) — Director
22. The Kidnapping (2008) — Director
23. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — Director
24. The Awakening of Spring (2008) — Director
25. Poker Alice (1987) — Director
26. Grace & Glorie (1998) — Director
27. Sin of Innocence (1986) — Director
28. The Runaway (2000) — Director
29. A Year in the Life (1987) — Director
30. Echoes (1982) — Director
31. Macbeth (1981) — Director
32. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014) — Director
33. By Dawn's Early Light (2001) — Director
34. Body Language (1992) — Director
35. The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996) — Director
36. Deep Family Secrets (1997) — Director
37. The Kid Who Loved Christmas (1990) — Director
38. Schoolboy Father (1980) — Director
39. Glory Years (1987) — Director
40. Addicted to His Love (1988) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Four Days in Paris (1955) — Mr Bolivar Alvarez
2. New York Goes to Hollywood (2008) — Self - Director