
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor. Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award…
Acting
- 2008New York Goes to HollywoodSelf - Director1 ep.
Behind the camera
- 1993The Secrets of Lake SuccessDirector3 ep.
- 1987A Year in the LifeDirector1 ep.
- 1986L.A. LawDirector1 ep.
- 1986Bridges to CrossDirector1 ep.
- 1985Half NelsonDirector1 ep.
- 1984Murder, She WroteDirector5 ep.
- 1984Cover UpDirector1 ep.
- 1983Bay City BluesDirector1 ep.
- 1981Hill Street BluesDirector4 ep.
- 1980Magnum, P.I.Director2 ep.
- 1979Knots LandingDirector1 ep.
- 1978The Paper ChaseDirector1 ep.
- 1951Hallmark Hall of FameDirector3 ep.
Guest appearances
- 2008New York Goes to HollywoodSelf - Director1 ep.