Fred Coe

Director

About

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Birth Place

Alligator, Mississippi, USA

Born

December 23, 1914

Died

April 29, 1979

Biography

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From stock theater in the 1930s, to TV in the late 40s, where he produced and directed numerous, intelligent episodes of "Goodyear Playhouse," "Playhouse 90," and others....

Filmography

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All the Way Home (1971)

Me, Natalie (1969)

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

This Property Is Condemned (1966)

The Miracle Worker (1979)

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Photos & Videos

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Miracle Worker, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Old Stonewall Indeed!

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) He Is Death's Child

Bibliography

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"The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television"

Jon Krampner, Rutgers University Press (1997)

Notes

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1986

Biography

From stock theater in the 1930s, to TV in the late 40s, where he produced and directed numerous, intelligent episodes of "Goodyear Playhouse," "Playhouse 90," and others.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

All the Way Home (1971)

Me, Natalie (1969)

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Writer (Feature Film)

This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Miracle Worker (1979)

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

The Miracle Worker (1962)

The Left Handed Gun (1958)

Director (Special)

Dateline (1954)

Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (1946)

The Last War (1946)

Producer (Special)

The Michele Lee Show (1974)

Of Men of Women (1973)

Of Men of Women (1972)

The Farmer's Daughter (1962)

Spellbound (1962)

The Paradine Case (1962)

Notorious (1961)

Intermezzo (1961)

The Spiral Staircase (1961)

The Great Impersonation (1960)

The Four Poster (1955)

Executive Producer

The Petrified Forest (1955)

Reunion in Vienna (1955)

Tonight at 8:30 (1954)

Dateline (1954)

The Last War (1946)

Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (1946)

Life Events

Videos

Miracle Worker, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Old Stonewall Indeed! Early in her stay with the Alabama Kellers, Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) is more concerned with the behavior of her student Helen (Patty Duke) than with the opinions of the Captain, brother James and mother Kate (Victor Jory, Andrew Prine, Inga Swenson), in The Miracle Worker, 1962.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) He Is Death's Child From Leslie Stevens' script based on Gore Vidal's teleplay, the lyric in the theme by William Goyen, Paul Newman's Billy the Kid stumbles and mumbles and meets first Tom (James Best), then rancher Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnston), in Arthur Penn's radical western The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Get Away From The Bible Just picked up on the range by English-born rancher Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnston), Paul Newman as Billy the Kid is by turns deceptive, intellectually curious, and protective, in Arthur Penn’s revisionist Western based on Gore Vidal’s teleplay, The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Left Handed Gun, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Shoot A Sheriff Paul Newman as Billy the Kid seems overly thrilled by the calliope, after the burial of his new boss, bouncing off Southerner Moultrie (Hurd Hatfield) and lawman Garrett (John Dehner), then frightening pals Tom and Charlie (James Best, James Congdon), in Arthur Penn’s, The Left Handed Gun, 1958.

Miracle Worker, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) She'll Live Inga Swenson and Victor Jory in the intense opening scene from director Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker, 1962, from William Gibson's play, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

Thousand Clowns, A (1965) -- (Movie Clip) People Going To Work Director Fred Coe emphatic with location shots, introducing Jason Robards, straight from his Broadway performance as free-spirited New York writer Murray, and Barry Gordon as his prodigy nephew, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965, from Herb Gardner's hit play.

Thousand Clowns, A (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Shock Treatment Lazy TV writer and full-time New Yorker Murray (Jason Robards) tries to manage unhinged social worker Sandra (Barbara Harris), who's dumped and kicked-out her co-worker and boyfriend, during a check-up on Robards' live-in nephew, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965, from Herb Gardner's play.

Thousand Clowns, A (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Your Own Personal Blacklist Giddy Manhattan montage by director Fred Coe, as Sandra (Barbara Harris) tidies the apartment and slack writer Murray (Jason Robards), motivated by a custody hearing, looks for work, then visits brother and agent Arnold (Martin Balsam), who had given him a lead, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965.

This Property Is Condemned - (Original Trailer) A small-town girl (Natalie Wood) fights her mother's opposition when she falls for a big-city businessman (Robert Redford) in This Property Is Condemned (1966).

Miracle Worker, The - (Original Trailer) Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke star in The Miracle Worker (1962), the true story of the determined teacher who taught a blind and deaf child - Helen Keller - how to communicate.

Bibliography

"The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television"

Jon Krampner, Rutgers University Press (1997)

Notes

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1986

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