CHARLES S. DUBIN - Veteran Television Director

Television director Charles Dubin died in Brentwood, California, on September 5, 2011.  He was 92.  Dubin was born in New York City on February 1, 1919.  He trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in the early 1940s, and performed in comedy and musical acts in the Catskills.  He also served as a stage manager on the New York stage, before embarking on a career as a television director in 1950.  He helmed such early television series as "Crime With Father", "Pultzer Prize Playhouse", and "Tales of Tomorrow"(including the episodes "The Dark Angel", "The Crystal Egg", "The Search for the Flying Saucer", and "The Little Black Bag").  Dubin was blacklisted in 1952 after he decline to testify about his political beliefs before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He returned to directing for television later in the decade, and helmed the 1957 film "Mister Rock and Roll", about disc jockey Alan Freed.  He was again the victim of a blacklist while directing the NBC gameshow "Twenty-One" in 1958, which became the center of the quizshow scandals. He again returned to television in the early 1960s, where he continued his long career directing episodes of "The Defenders", "Tarzan", "The New People", "Ghost Story/Circle of Fear", "Kung Fu", "Ellery Queen", "Man From Atlantis", "Tabitha", "Charlie’s Angles", "Hawaii 5-O", "Kojak", and "Supertrain".  His other television credits incled Rogers’ and Hammerstein’ musical version of "Cinderella" (1965) which earned him an Emmy nomination, "Murder Once Removed" (1971), "Death In Space" (1974), "The Tenth Level" (1976), "The Deadly Triangle" (1977), "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979), "Topper" (1979), "The Gathering Part II" (1979), and "Born to the Wind" (1982). He directed the 1976 film "Moving Violation". He was best known for helming over 40 episodes of the popular television series "M*A*S*H" from 1976 to 1983, garnering three Emmy Award nominations, He also directed episodes of "Herbie, The Love Bug", "Small & Frye", "Jennifer Slept Here", "Murder, She Wrote", "Starman", and "Sledge Hammer!".