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Mel Stuart
Director 1928 - 2012

Mel Stuart

New York City, New York, USA

Mel Stuart (born Stuart Solomon; September 2, 1928 – August 9, 2012) was an American film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance. Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

3 titles
Wattstax

Wattstax

Mel Stuart 1973 1h 38m

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.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Mel Stuart 1971 1h 40m 7.9

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the wonderfully playful film based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl. Gene Wilder plays a mystical and very reclusive chocolate factory owner that gives five kids the change to visit the most secret and enchanting factory of chocolate.

Four Days in November

Four Days in November

Mel Stuart 1964 2h 2m

1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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