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name: "Noam Pitlik"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/noam-pitlik"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 November 1932"
died: "16 February 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T21:10:50.254388+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."
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# Noam Pitlik

Director. Born 4 November 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 16 February 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 November 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 16 February 1999
- **Active:** 1974–1978
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 directing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 86 (1), 1970s 73 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7045526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685736/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213215

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Taxi*](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md) (86)

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

## Biography

Noam Pitlik was an American actor and television director. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Temple University and began his career acting in a local Western series before moving to New York, where he appeared in an off-Broadway production of *The Threepenny Opera* in 1957. He later worked in Hollywood, appearing in guest roles on series including *Hogan's Heroes*, *Bewitched*, *I Dream of Jeannie*, *The Munsters*, *Get Smart* and *All in the Family*, as well as films such as *The Graduate* (1967) and *The Fortune Cookie* (1966).

From the mid-1970s Pitlik concentrated on directing, helming more than 200 episodes across numerous series. He directed 102 episodes of *Barney Miller*, 11 episodes of *Taxi* (1978) and episodes of *Wings*, *Mr. Belvedere* and *One Day at a Time*. For his work on *Barney Miller* he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 1979, as well as a Peabody Award and a Directors Guild of America Award.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Front Page* (1974), Fi1m 60, as Wilson — [page](https://film.one/film/the-front-page.md)

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

- *Taxi* (1978), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Graduate* (1967), Fi1m 86, as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-graduate.md)

## Also known for

- *I Dream of Jeannie* (1965), Gregorian
- *Bewitched* (1964)
- *The Munsters* (1964), Jack Poyer
- *Get Smart* (1965), Bodecker
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), MacGregor
- *The Fortune Cookie* (1966), Max
- *Hogan's Heroes* (1965), Wagner, Captain Morgan, Major Lutz, Captain Herber
- *The Andy Griffith Show* (1960), Roy Swanson

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