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Arthur Allan Seidelman

Overview

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, The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals, including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters. Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER.

Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. He has had considerable success off-Broadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence, by Ronald Ribman, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson, among others. He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific. In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of Hair, Of Thee I Sing, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, Follies and others. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi Newhouse) for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles.

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Known for

Acting
1955 Four Days in Paris Actor Mr Bolivar Alvarez 59
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Directing
2025 Delfino's Journey Directing Director N/A
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2014 Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Directing Director 58
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2008 The Awakening of Spring Directing Director 59
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2007 Black Friday Directing Director 59
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2007 Two Spirits One Journey Directing Director N/A
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2005 The Sisters Directing Director 58
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2004 A Christmas Carol Directing Director 59
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2004 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze Directing Director 58
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2001 Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes Directing Director 59
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2001 By Dawn's Early Light Directing Director 59
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2000 The Runaway Directing Director 59
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2000 Sex & Mrs. X Directing Director 59
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1999 Walking Across Egypt Directing Director 58
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1998 Grace & Glorie Directing Director 59
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1997 Miracle in the Woods Directing Director 59
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1997 Deep Family Secrets Directing Director 58
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1996 The Summer of Ben Tyler Directing Director 59
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1996 Harvest of Fire Directing Director 58
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1994 Trapped in Space Directing Director 58
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1993 Rescue Me Directing Director 58
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1993 The Secrets of Lake Success Directing Director N/A
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1993 Dying to Remember Directing Director 58
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1992 Body Language Directing Director 58
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1990 The Kid Who Loved Christmas Directing Director 59
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1989 False Witness Directing Director 59
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1988 The People Across the Lake Directing Director 59
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1988 A Friendship in Vienna Directing Director 59
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1988 Addicted to His Love Directing Director 59
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1988 A Place at the Table Directing Director N/A
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1987 Strange Voices Directing Director 59
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1987 Poker Alice Directing Director 59
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1987 The Caller Directing Director 59
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1987 Glory Years Directing Director 59
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1986 Kate's Secret Directing Director 58
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1986 Sin of Innocence Directing Director 58
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1985 Half Nelson Directing Director N/A
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1982 Echoes Directing Director 58
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1981 She Drinks a Little Directing Director N/A
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1981 I Think I'm Having A Baby Directing Director N/A
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1981 Macbeth Directing Director 59
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1980 Schoolboy Father Directing Director 58
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1975 Children of Rage Directing Director 59
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1970 The Ceremony of Innocence Directing Director N/A
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1970 Hercules in New York Directing Director 52
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Writing
1982 I Love Liberty Writing Writer N/A
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1975 Children of Rage Writing Writer 59
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Production
2023 Fields of Gold Production Executive Producer N/A
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