Alfred R. Kelman

Alfred R. Kelman
Kelman in 2016
Born	(1936-05-17) May 17, 1936 (age 80) Bronx, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television producer, Television director

Alfred R. Kelman (born May 17, 1936) is an American film and television documentary producer and director best known for his work on The Body Human and the 1984 television version of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott.

His career began in the early days of live television (1962) at the local level as a director for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, WBZ-TV Boston. Subsequently, he was an Oscar nominee (1966) for his documentary film The Face of a Genius, an autobiographical study of America’s famed playwright, Eugene O’Neill. It marked the first time in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

A mass communications graduate scholar (1959) studying public opinion at Boston University under the aegis of WGBH, a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, he also served as a principal of Medcom (1968), a publicly traded company and pioneer of the learning industry in the dissemination of medical knowledge to physicians and the public. As producer, director, and co-creator of the groundbreaking CBS documentary series The Body Human (1977), a cinematic exploration of the relationship between biochemistry, medicine and human behavior, he opened the door to Lifeline, a documentary television series on NBC.