Mel Stuart
1928 - 2012Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He has directed other features, including If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), One Is a Lonely Number (1974) and Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000).
Stuart also directed feature documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax.
In addition he has directed or produced over 150 films including movies of the week, The Triangle Factory Fire, Bill, The Chisholms, and Ruby and Oswald, the television series Ripley's Believe it Not, and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1968, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man Ray - The Prophet of the Avant-Garde, George Plimpton and the Philharmonic and The Poet's View. He has been awarded four Emmy awards, an Academy Award nomination, a Peabody and numerous other awards. He served as president of the International Documentary Association for two years.
He was related to TV producer David L. Wolper.
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The Hobart Shakespeareans
Mel Stuart
Michael York, Ian McKellen
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
The Hobart Shakespeareans
China: The Roots of Madness
Mel Stuart
China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.
China: The Roots of Madness
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde
Mel Stuart
Man Ray, Stockard Channing
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Mel Stuart
John Huston
A documentary story of a man of our times- In a period when his country was tormented by conflict and violencei he perceived and embraced the struggle of his epoch - the struggle for human dignity and freedom. The only documentary that was presented as an ABC Movie of the Week.
The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Mel Stuart
Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'
J.M. Kenny
Mel Stuart, David L. Wolper
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
Wattstax
Mel Stuart
Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
Wattstax
Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135
Mel Stuart
Forty runners compete in the most gruelling race on earth, the Badwater. The film documents the trials and tribulations of these athletes as they run 135 miles through Death Valley in July and explores the motivations behind this seemingly masochistic contest. A celebration of the perseverance of the human will beyond the limits of the human body
Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Mel Stuart
David Dukes, Tovah Feldshuh
The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Mel Stuart
Sophia Loren, Armand Assante
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
