A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Alex Singer
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
April 18, 1928
Died:
December 28, 2020
Alexander Singer (born 18 April 1928, in New York City, New York, died 28 December, 2020) was an American director. He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary Day of the Fight, directed by his high school friend Stanley Kubrick. Singer turned to directing a decade later with the film A Cold Wind in August. Although he directed other films, such as the Lee Van Cleef western Captain Apache (1971), and Glass Houses (1972), an adaptation of a book that his wife Judith Singer wrote, the bulk of Singer's credits are in television. The long list of series to which Singer has lent his directorial talents include Dr. Kildare, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Alias Smith and Jones, Nakia, Police Woman, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, six episodes of The Monkees, and three Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Singer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Assistant Director:
1951 Day of the Fight
Associate Producer:
1951 Day of the Fight
1956 The Killing
Director:
1951 Day of the Fight
1956 The Killing
1961 A Cold Wind in August
1964 Psyche 59
1965 Love Has Many Faces
1971 Captain Apache
1972 Glass Houses
1975 The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1976 The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976 Time Travelers
1977 Bunco
1978 Hunters of the Reef
1984 The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1995 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit
Writer:
1951 Day of the Fight
1956 The Killing
1961 A Cold Wind in August
1964 Psyche 59
1965 Love Has Many Faces
1971 Captain Apache
1972 Glass Houses
1975 The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1976 The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976 Time Travelers
1977 Bunco
1978 Hunters of the Reef
1984 The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1995 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit
Director:
1960 Checkmate
1961 Dr. Kildare
1962 The Virginian
1963 The Fugitive
1964 Profiles in Courage
1965 Laredo
1965 Lost in Space
1965 The F.B.I.
1966 Hawk
1966 Jericho
1966 Mission: Impossible
1966 The Monkees
1966 The Rounders
1967 Judd for the Defense
1967 Mannix
1968 Lancer
1968 The Name of the Game
1971 Alias Smith and Jones
1971 Longstreet
1972 Assignment: Vienna
1972 Ghost Story
1973 Police Story
1973 Shaft
1973 The Magician
1974 Apple's Way
1974 Police Woman
1974 The Rockford Files
1975 Joe Forrester
1975 Wonder Woman
1976 Gibbsville
1976 Quincy, M.E.
1977 Logan's Run
1977 Lou Grant
1977 Rafferty
1978 Dallas
1978 David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978 Pearl
1979 Knots Landing
1979 Paris
1980 Secrets of Midland Heights
1981 Hill Street Blues
1981 Walking Tall
1982 Cagney & Lacey
1982 Cassie & Co.
1982 Remington Steele
1983 Emerald Point N.A.S.
1984 Hunter
1984 Murder, She Wrote
1985 MacGyver
1987 Friday the 13th: The Series
1987 Jake and the Fatman
1987 Mariah
1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 The Bronx Zoo
1988 In the Heat of the Night
1989 The New Lassie
1991 FBI: The Untold Stories
1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 Walker, Texas Ranger
1994 Christy
1995 Star Trek: Voyager
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