Name Barnet Kellman Role Television Director | Spouse Nancy Mette (m. 1982) | |
Occupation Film director, television producer, actor Children Katherine Mette, Michael Mette, Eliza Mette Parents Verona D. Kellman, Joseph A. G. Kellman Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Movies and TV shows Slappy and the Stinkers, Straight Talk, Key Exchange, Mary and Rhoda, Something Wilder Similar People Joseph Ashton, Gary LeRoi Gray, Carl Michael Lindner, Bronson Pinchot, Diane English | ||
Slappy And The Stinkers Trailer 1997
Barnet Kellman (born November 9, 1947) is a television and film director, television producer and film actor.
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Kellman, who was born and raised in New York City, he attended the Colgate University and the Yale School of Drama, eventually earning his PhD. from Union Institute at Antioch. Kellman got his start in Hollywood in the early 1980s as a director for soap operas such as the NBC-TV daytime soap opera series Another World and CBS's As the World Turns. Kellman used the skills he learned on set to become a regular director of many hugely successful TV sitcoms of the 1990s. He was the main director for the CBS-TV sitcom series Murphy Brown from 1988 to 1992, and won Emmy Awards in 1990 and 1992 for his work.
After Murphy Brown's cancellation, he bounced all over the industry, directing pilots and helming entire episodes of other successful sitcoms and dramas, such as NBC's Mad About You, CBS's Designing Women, and Felicity. Kellman finally made the directorial leap to the big screen with 1992's "Straight Talk," starring Dolly Parton as a sultry, wise-cracking DJ. Kellman is still actively working on television series in Hollywood, and has recently directed episodes for and/or produced for sitcoms George Lopez, E.R., Ally McBeal, My Boys and 8 Simple Rules.
Kellman made his feature film directorial debut with the 20th Century Fox screen adaptation of Key Exchange which starred Brooke Adams. He went on to direct Dolly Parton and James Woods in the comedy film Straight Talk for Disney (1992), and Stinkers for Sony Pictures.