Mel Stuart

Mel Stuart born Stuart Solomon September 2 1928 August 9 2012 was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L Wolper at whose production firm he worked for 17 years before going freelance Stuart directed the fantasymusical Willy Wonka the Chocolate Factory 1971 He has directed other features including If Its Tuesday This Must Be Belgium 1969 One Is a Lonely Number 1974 and Running on the Sun The Badwater 135 2000 Stuart also directed feature documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax In addition he has directed or produced over 150 films including movies of the week The Triangle Factory Fire Bill The Chisholms and Ruby and Oswald the television series Ripleys Believe it Not and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960 1964 and 1968 The Hobart Shakespeareans Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Man Ray The Prophet of the AvantGarde George Plimpton and the Philharmonic and The Poets View He has been awarded four Emmy awards an Academy Award nomination a Peabody and numerous other awards He served as president of the International Documentary Association for two years He was related to TV producer David L Wolper Description above from the Wikipedia article Mel Stuart licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia