With New Hollywood influences and the freedom to shoot beyond the limitations of a soundstage, "M*A*S*H" is one of the most visually interesting sitcoms of the '70s. The show's filmmakers often made intriguing creative decisions, shooting entire episodes from the point-of-view of a documentary camera crew or a patient stuck in a hospital bed. With writer, director, and star Alan Alda counted among its directing team -- not to mention filmmakers like Alan Rafkin, James Sheldon, Charles Dubin, and more -- the show's visual flair stands in sharp contrast to many multicam sitcoms of its era.
Still, "M*A*S*H" sometimes relied on standard shots and techniques to get by, including a penchant for filming characters from the waist up in a classic medium-distance shot. While this seems like a decision filmmakers might have used for simplicity's sake, or perhaps to keep the camera focused on the emotion on the faces of each actor,...
Still, "M*A*S*H" sometimes relied on standard shots and techniques to get by, including a penchant for filming characters from the waist up in a classic medium-distance shot. While this seems like a decision filmmakers might have used for simplicity's sake, or perhaps to keep the camera focused on the emotion on the faces of each actor,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
We are sorry to report actor James Douglas died on March 5, 2016. Perhaps best known for his roles on cancelled TV shows like the daytime soap operas As the World Turns (CBS), One Life to Life (ABC) and ABC's primetime soap, Peyton Place, Douglas had a long TV career.
His first appearance was on The Millionaire TV series, in 1957. Director James Sheldon, who died on Saturday, March 19, directed that series. Other TV appearances by Douglas include the soap operas Another World, The Doctors, and The Edge of Night, as well as primetime offerings like 12 O'Clock High, Ironside, and Spenser for Hire.
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His first appearance was on The Millionaire TV series, in 1957. Director James Sheldon, who died on Saturday, March 19, directed that series. Other TV appearances by Douglas include the soap operas Another World, The Doctors, and The Edge of Night, as well as primetime offerings like 12 O'Clock High, Ironside, and Spenser for Hire.
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- 3/23/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
TV Director, James Sheldon, has died at the age of 95. Sheldon's extensive resume includes classic TV series like The Millionaire, The Twilight Zone, Naked City, Batman, M*A*S*H, Route 66, The Fugitive, Sanford & Son, and The Waltons. His last direction credit was the "Dori Day Afternoon" episode of Sledge Hammer!, which was cancelled by ABC, after two seasons.
Per his New York Times biography, Sheldon directed over 1,000 TV show episodes and discovered his fair share of talent, including the late Tony Randall, co-star of the first TV adaptation of The Odd Couple. Randall had landed a bit part on the Mr. Peepers TV series. Reportedly, Sheldon was so pleased with his performance, he expanded Randall's part in the script and cast him as a series regular.
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Per his New York Times biography, Sheldon directed over 1,000 TV show episodes and discovered his fair share of talent, including the late Tony Randall, co-star of the first TV adaptation of The Odd Couple. Randall had landed a bit part on the Mr. Peepers TV series. Reportedly, Sheldon was so pleased with his performance, he expanded Randall's part in the script and cast him as a series regular.
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- 3/21/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Prolific director James Sheldon, who worked on “The Twilight Zone,” “The Fugitive” and “Perry Mason” among scores of other classic TV shows, is dead. He was 95. He died in Manhattan of complications from cancer, his son Tony told The New York Times. His first show business job was as a page at NBC in the early 1940s, when the network specialized in radio, but TV was Sheldon’s oeuvre. He didn’t work on a single feature film but estimated that he had directed about 1,200 hours of TV during his career. He got started early and directed episodes of “The Bing Crosby.
- 3/21/2016
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Director James Sheldon, who worked on hundreds of television shows, seemingly everything from Mr. Peepers and The Twilight Zone to Sanford and Son and Sledge Hammer!, has died. He was 95. Sheldon, who once estimated that he directed 1,000 episodes ("I never stopped to count," he said a decade ago), died March 12 of complications from cancer at his home in Manhattan, his son Tony told The New York Times. Sheldon directed one season of the sitcom The Bing Crosby Show; 44 episodes of The Millionaire; 10 of Route 66; eight of Room 222, Love, American Style and
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- 3/20/2016
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Let’s play a little word association. Monster Squad. What comes to mind? You either start thinking of the first virgin you can you think of or you scream Wolfman’s Got Nards! Yeah, that’s The Monster Squad; The Fred Dekker classic about kids versus the regrouped Universal monsters. The Monster Squad is a brilliant movie that is one of the absolute best way to get kiddies into the creepies. Monster Squad on the other hand is something wholly different although with similar effect.
Monster Squad takes Herman Hoffman whose resume precedes him as a Director of early television shaping the way we view stories on the boobtube and combines his efforts with James Sheldon, also television royalty and director quite a few spooky classics including a pile of episodes of the Twilight Zone. While both men come from extensive television directorial backgrounds, I think it’s important to...
Monster Squad takes Herman Hoffman whose resume precedes him as a Director of early television shaping the way we view stories on the boobtube and combines his efforts with James Sheldon, also television royalty and director quite a few spooky classics including a pile of episodes of the Twilight Zone. While both men come from extensive television directorial backgrounds, I think it’s important to...
- 10/13/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
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