Alfred R. Kelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alfred R. Kelman

American television producer

Date of Birth: 17-May-1936

Place of Birth: New York, United States

Profession: television producer, television director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Alfred R. Kelman

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  • Kelman (born May 17, 1936) is an American film and television documentary producer and director best known for his work on The Body Human and the 1984 television version of A Christmas Carol starring George C.
  • Scott. His career began in the early days of live television (1962) at the local level as a director for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, WBZ-TV Boston.
  • Subsequently, he was an Oscar nominee (1966) for his documentary film, The Face of a Genius, an autobiographical study of America's famed playwright, Eugene O'Neill.
  • It marked the first time in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature. A mass communications graduate scholar (1959) studying public opinion at Boston University under the aegis of WGBH, a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, he also served as a principal of Medcom (1968), a publicly traded company and pioneer of the learning industry in the dissemination of medical knowledge to physicians and the public.
  • As producer, director, and co-creator of the groundbreaking CBS documentary series The Body Human (1977), a cinematic exploration of the relationship between biochemistry, medicine and human behavior, he opened the door to Lifeline, a documentary television series on NBC. Kelman is a three-time winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Documentary Feature and a seven-time Emmy winner for Lifeline and The Body Human.
  • One of the few documentary film makers who moved from nonfiction to a 25-year career as a producer of films and miniseries for television.

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