Alfred R. Kelman
Alfred R. Kelman 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.
A first generation American born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, he is the son of Lawrence and Laura Kelman, Jewish immigrants from Poland. As a teenager in the late 1950s Kelman was a child of the live television era. Hollywood, in the early 50s as a filmmaking center found its audience for movies tilting drastically in the direction of live television drama. Influenced by the thoughts of comedian Jackie Gleason in a Look magazine article describing the excitement of live television not only as entertainer but the necessity for television directors to emulate the instinctive skills akin to the performance of an athlete. Kelman, though he played high school and college baseball, knowing he did not have the makings of a major leaguer, was drawn to a career in live television.
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