---
name: "Jerrold Freedman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jerrold-freedman"
fi1m_id: "jerrold-freedman"
imdb_id: "nm0293197"
tmdb_id: 55264
wikidata_id: "Q3177440"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "29 October 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T17:35:45.911817+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jerrold Freedman

## Identity

Jerrold Freedman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jerrold-freedman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jerrold-freedman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0293197
- **TMDB ID:** 55264
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3177440
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177440, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293197/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55264

Director. Born 29 October 1941 in Philadelphia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 29 October 1941, Philadelphia
- **Active:** 1973–1993
- **Also known as:** Alan Smithee
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1990s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177440, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293197/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55264

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The X-Files*](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) (84)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Kojak*](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jerrold Freedman is an American director and writer. Born on 29 October 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began his career as a producer in the late 1960s before directing episodes of series including *The Bold Ones: The Protectors* (1970), *The Psychiatrist* (1971) and *Night Gallery* (1970–1971).

He directed the feature films *Kansas City Bomber* (1972), *Borderline* (1980) and *Native Son* (1986), as well as numerous television movies and episodes of series such as *Kojak*, *MacGyver* (1985, as Alan Smithee) and *The X-Files* (1993–1994). He has also written under the name J. F. Freedman.

*Sources: imdb.com, x-files.fandom.com, filmink.com.au.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *The X-Files* (1993), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Kojak* (1973), Fi1m 80, Story, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *The O.J. Simpson Story* (1995), Director
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Condition: Critical* (1992), Director
- *Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston* (1990), Director
- *Night Walk* (1989), Director
- *The Comeback* (1989), Director
- *Unholy Matrimony* (1988), Director
- *Family Sins* (1987), Director
- *Native Son* (1986), Director
- *Thompson's Last Run* (1986), Director
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, Director
- *The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1985), series, Director, Writer
- *Seduced* (1985), Director
- *Best Kept Secrets* (1984), Director
- *The Seduction of Gina* (1984), Director
- *Legs* (1983), Director, Writer
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Director
- *Victims* (1982), Director
- *Borderline* (1980), Director, Screenplay
- *The Boy Who Drank Too Much* (1980), Director
- *The Streets of L.A.* (1979), as Tire Salesman · Director
- *Lawman Without a Gun* (1979), Writer, Director
- *Some Kind of Miracle* (1979), Director
- *Betrayal* (1978), Writer
- *The Last Angry Man* (1974), Producer, Director
- *Blood Sport* (1973), Director, Writer
- *Kojak* (1973), series, Writer, Story — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)
- *A Cold Night's Death* (1973), Director
- *Kansas City Bomber* (1972), Director
- *The Psychiatrist* (1971), series, Writer, Director
- *Night Gallery* (1970), series, Director, Writer
- *The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children* (1970), Teleplay
- *The Bold Ones: The Senator* (1970), series, Director, Writer
- *Trial Run* (1969), Associate Producer
- *Prescription: Murder* (1968), Associate Producer

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