Alexander Singer

Alexander Singer (18 April 1928 – 28 December 2020) was an American director.¹ He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary Day of the Fight, directed by his high-school friend Stanley Kubrick.² Singer turned to directing a decade later with the film A Cold Wind in August.

Although he directed other films, such as the Lee Van Cleef Western Captain Apache (1971),³ and Glass Houses (1972) with a screenplay was written by him and his wife, Judith Singer.¹

The television series to which Singer directed include Dr. Kildare, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Alias Smith and Jones, Nakia, Police Woman, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, Murder She Wrote, six episodes of The Monkees, and three Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.