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Lee Grant  Television Director, Producer, Actor

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Career Includes

Director: The Shape of Things (1973; Codirector, also Performer), Hollywood Television Theatre: For the Use of the Hall (1975), Tell Me a Riddle (1980; theatrical feature), The Willmar 8 (1981), When Women Kill (1983; also Narrator), A Matter of Sex (1984), ABC Afterschool Special: Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (1985), What Sex am I? (1985; also Narrator), Down and Out in America (1985; also Narrator), Nobody’s Child (1986), America Undercover: Battered (1989; also Producer, Host); No Place Like Home (1989), Staying Together (1989; theatrical feature), Women on Trial (1992; also Producer, Narrator ), Seasons of the Heart (1994), Following Her Heart (1994), Reunion (1994), Say It, Fight It, Cure It (1997; also Producer), Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America (1999; also Producer), The Loretta Claiborne Story (2000), American Masters: Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000; also Narrator), Intimate Portrait (2000–04; Directed 43 episodes; also Writer for episode on Gloria Steinem; Executive Producer for episodes on Star Jones and Florence Griffith Joyner), The Gun Deadlock (2001), Biography: Melanie Griffith (2004), A Father…A Son…Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005; also Producer); Executive Producer: Baghdad ER (2006); Actor, series guest appearances: Actors’ Studio, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Defenders, Judd for the Defense, Empty Nest, The Ray Bradbury Theater; series regular: Search for Tomorrow (1953–54), Peyton Place (1965–66), Fay (1975–76); television movies/miniseries/specials: The Neon Ceiling (1971), Ransom for a Dead Man (1971), Lieutenant Schuster’s Wife (1972), Backstairs at the White House (1979), Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982), Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983), The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989), She Said No (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992)
 

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October 31, 1927
New York, New York

 

 

 

 

 


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