Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-04-18 (97 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Alexander Singer

Biography:

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.

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Known For

Directing

1994

Christy as Director

1991

1989

The New Lassie as Director

1988

1987

1985

MacGyver as Director

1984

1983

1982

Remington Steele as Director
Cagney & Lacey as Director
Cassie & Co. as Director

1981

Hill Street Blues as Director
Walking Tall as Director

1979

Knots Landing as Director
Paris as Director

1978

Pearl as Director
Dallas as Director

1977

Bunco as Director
Lou Grant as Director
Logan's Run as Director
Rafferty as Director

1976

Time Travelers as Director
Quincy, M.E. as Director
Gibbsville as Director

1975

1974

Police Woman as Director
Apple's Way as Director
The Rockford Files as Director

1973

Shaft as Director
Police Story as Director
The Magician as Director

1972

Glass Houses as Director
Assignment: Vienna as Director
Ghost Story as Director

1971

Captain Apache as Director
Longstreet as Director

1968

Lancer as Director

1967

Mannix as Director

1966

The Monkees as Director
The Rounders as Director
Jericho as Director
Hawk as Director

1965

Lost in Space as Director
Laredo as Director
The F.B.I. as Director

1964

Psyche 59 as Director

1963

The Fugitive as Director

1962

The Virginian as Director

1961

Dr. Kildare as Director

1960

Checkmate as Director

1951

Day of the Fight as Assistant Director

Writing

1972

Glass Houses as Writer

Production

1956

The Killing as Associate Producer