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name: "Fred Coe"
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roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "23 December 1914"
died: "29 April 1979"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-09-20T04:34:06.678872+00:00"
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# Fred Coe

Producer and director. Born 23 December 1914 in Alligator, Mississippi. Died 29 April 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 23 December 1914, Alligator, Mississippi
- **Died:** 29 April 1979
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Coe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168402, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168641/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15671

## Biography

Fred Coe was an American producer and director of theatre, television and film. Born in Alligator, Mississippi, he studied at the Yale School of Drama before beginning his career in television at NBC in the mid-1940s.

He produced anthology series including *Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse* (1948–1955) and *Playhouse 90* (1957–1959), and several Broadway productions such as *The Miracle Worker* (1960) and *A Thousand Clowns* (1962). Coe produced and directed the 1965 film adaptation of *A Thousand Clowns*, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He died in Los Angeles in 1979.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Thousand Clowns* (1965), Fi1m 76, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-thousand-clowns.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Miracle Worker* (1979), Producer, In Memory Of
- *The Adams Chronicles* (1976), series, Producer, Director
- *If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band* (1972), Director
- *All the Way Home* (1971), Director
- *Me, Natalie* (1969), Director
- *Wait Until Dark* (1967), as Other
- *CBS Playhouse* (1966), series, Producer
- *This Property Is Condemned* (1966), Screenplay
- *A Thousand Clowns* (1965), Director, Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/a-thousand-clowns.md)
- *The Miracle Worker* (1962), Producer
- *The Spiral Staircase* (1961), Producer
- *Journey to the Day* (1960), Producer
- *Old Man* (1958), Producer
- *Heart of Darkness* (1958), Producer
- *Days of Wine and Roses* (1958), Producer
- *The Plot to Kill Stalin* (1958), Producer
- *The Left Handed Gun* (1958), Producer
- *DuPont Show of the Month* (1957), series, Producer
- *The Barretts of Wimpole Street* (1956), Supervising Producer
- *The Battler* (1955), Producer
- *Our Town* (1955), Producer
- *The Petrified Forest* (1955), Producer
- *Peter Pan* (1955), Producer
- *Producers' Showcase* (1954), series, Producer
- *The Bachelor Party* (1953), Producer
- *Marty* (1953), Producer
- *Mister Peepers* (1952), series, Producer
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, Director
- *Goodyear Television Playhouse* (1951), series, Producer
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Director, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1966: Best Picture (nominated), for *A Thousand Clowns*

### Golden Globes — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1965: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominated), for *A Thousand Clowns*
- 1962: Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated), for *The Miracle Worker*

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 0 won, 3 nominated

- 1977: Outstanding Limited Miniseries (nominated), for *The Adams Chronicles*
- 1977: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (nominated), for *The Adams Chronicles*
- 1976: Outstanding Limited Miniseries (nominated), for *The Adams Chronicles*

### Other awards — 1 won, 4 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Play 1963: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Play 1962: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Play 1961: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Play 1960: Tony Award for Best Play (won)
- Tony Award for Best Play 1958: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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