{"id":34651,"date":"2023-11-27T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34651"},"modified":"2023-11-27T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:25:40","slug":"rip-elliot-silverstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34651","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Elliot Silverstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elliot Silverstein died on November 24, 2023.\u00a0 Mr. Silverstein was 96.<\/p>\n

Mr. Silverstein’s career began in 1955 when he directed eleven episodes of the tv series Omnibus<\/em>.\u00a0 For the next forty years Elliott Silverstein directed television projects and feature films. When Mr. Silverstein retired from directing he taught film at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n

Mr. Silverstein was nominated for a Directors Guild Award<\/em> in 1965 for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures<\/em> for Cat Ballou<\/em>. In 1985, he won the Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award<\/em> from the Directors Guild of America<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1990, the Directors Guild<\/em> named him a\u00a0DGA Honorary Life Member Award<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some of Elliot Silverstein’s television projects include:\u00a0 Omnibus<\/em> (11 episodes); The United States Steel Hour<\/em> (2 episodes); Suspicion<\/em> (2 episodes); Alcoa Theater<\/em> (2 episodes); The Westerner; Route 66<\/em> (5 episodes); Have Gun – Will Travel; Naked City<\/em> (8 episodes); Dr. Kildare<\/em> (14 episodes); Channing<\/em> (2 episodes); Breaking Point<\/em> (2 episodes); The Twilight Zone<\/em> (4 episodes); The Doctors and The Nurses<\/em> (4 episodes); The Defenders<\/em> (4 episodes); Kraft Suspense Theater<\/em> (3 episodes) and Tales from the Crypt<\/em> (4 episodes).<\/p>\n

Some of Elliot Silverstein’s feature films include: Cat Ballou; The Happening; A Man Called Horse<\/em> and The Car<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure the first time I saw something directed by Elliot Silverstein since he directed several shows I watched when I was young.\u00a0 My favorite project directed by Mr. Silverstein is The Obsolete Man<\/em> episode of The Twilight Zone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Elliot Silverstein’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elliot Silverstein died on November 24, 2023.\u00a0 Mr. Silverstein was 96. Mr. Silverstein’s career began in 1955 when he directed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34652,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651\/revisions\/34652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}