Alexander Singer (born 1932, in New York City, New York) is an American director. He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary Day of the Fight, directed by his high school friend, Stanley Kubrick. Singer himself turned to directing a decade later with the film, A Cold Wind in August.
Although he would direct other feature films, such as the Lee Van Cleef western, Captain Apache (1971), and Glass Houses (1972), a film of the book which his wife, Judith Singer, wrote, the bulk of Singer's credits are in television. The long list of series to which Singer has lent his directorial talents include Dr. Kildare, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Alias Smith and Jones, Police Woman, MacGyver, 6 episodes of The Monkees, and three Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.
Singer and his wife Judy have been married since 1950.
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“Children don’t read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don’t expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (20th century)