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Arthur Allan Seidelman

Arthur Allan Seidelman is an American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer, and actor. His works are distinguished by a humane, probing, and sympathetic depiction of characters facing ethical challenges. His approach to directing is guided by his belief that character and relationships, along with an emphasis on genuine emotion over intellectualization, are the keys to unlocking the dramatic potential of a performance, a play, or a screenplay.

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Arthur Allan Seidelman (born 1937 in New York City) is an American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer, and actor. His works are distinguished by a humane, probing, and sympathetic depiction of characters facing ethical challenges. His approach to directing is guided by his belief that character and relationships, along with an emphasis on genuine emotion over intellectualization, are the keys to unlocking the dramatic potential of a performance, a play, or a screenplay.

Early life and career

Born in the Bronx, the son of Jeanne and Theodore Seidelman and nephew of Yiddish Theatre star Isidore Casher, Seidelman received his B.A. from Whittier College and an M.A. in Theatre from UCLA. He subsequently studied with Group Theatre (New York City) co-founder Sanford Meisner, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. Seidelman credits Meisner with teaching him how to approach actors and to find the cord of inner realism that ignites a scene. Seidelman also studied with Group Theatre co-founder Harold Clurman.

Walter Kerr praised Seidelman's 1970 revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing as an "astonishingly fresh and deeply moving evening" and wrote also that it was "directed and played as nakedly as though no one were watching."

Film

Seidelman made his screen directorial debut with Hercules in New York, a 1969 comedy-action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first feature, which has become a cult classic. He then co-wrote and directed Children of Rage starring Helmut Griem as an Israeli doctor caught up in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and also starring Simon Ward and Cyril Cusack. The film was the first Hollywood feature to address issues on both sides of the conflict, and it was screened for major international bodies including the United Nations General Assembly and the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Seidelman also directed The Caller, a science fiction thriller shot at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, starring Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith and the 2007 film Black Friday (also known as The Kidnapping).

Seidelman's film The Sisters (2005 film), a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (play), stars Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Tony Goldwyn, and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (now known as the Tribeca Festival). The film won numerous awards including the Santa Fe Film Festival Milagro Award for Best American Independent Film.

Television

Seidelman has directed many award-winning television productions, including Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’ film musical A Christmas Carol-The Musical for NBC starring Kelsey Grammer, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Geraldine Chaplin, and Jason Alexander. The film, shot entirely in Budapest with Dickens-era sets erected on the back lot of Mafilm Studios, has become a holiday classic.

Theatre

Seidelman directed Broadway productions of Billy (1969), a musical adaptation of Billy Budd; Vieux Carré (1977) by Tennessee Williams; and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2003) by Richard Alfieri. 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,

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He directed four highly acclaimed Hallmark Hall of Fame productions: Grace and Glorie starring Gena Rowlands, Diane Lane, and Viola Davis, The Summer of Ben Tyler starring James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern, Harvest of Fire starring Patty Duke, and The Runaway starring Maya Angelou. He also directed Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes starring Mary Tyler Moore for CBS, Strange Voices and The People Across the Lake both for NBC and both starring Valerie Harper, By Dawn's Early Light with Richard Crenna and David Carradine for HBO, The Kid Who Loved Christmas starring Cicely Tyson, Michael Warren, and Sammy Davis Jr. for Eddie Murphy Productions and Paramount Television, and Miracle in the Woods starring Della Reese and Meredith Baxter for CBS. Strange Voices was one of 1987's highest rated made-for-TV movies with a 33 share in the Nielsen TV Ratings. Seidelman also directed Black Friday (also known as The Kidnapping) with Judd Nelson, and Sin of Innocence starring Dee Wallace and, in his film debut, Dermot Mulroney. His CBS film Poker Alice, shot on location in Old Tucson, starred Elizabeth Taylor in her first romantic comedy/western. He directed the first film made by the Disney Channel, A Friendship in Vienna, from a screenplay by Richard Alfieri, and starring Jane Alexander and Ed Asner. The film is screened in schools as a teaching tool about The Holocaust. Seidelman's NBC movie Kate's Secret, starring Meredith Baxter Birney as a woman fighting bulimia, remains one of the most watched made-for-television films in TV history.

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