Richard Fielder (April 13, 1925 – July 22, 2020) was an American television writer.

Career

Richard Fielder had a career spanning from the 1950s to the 1990s, during which he wrote for over 59 television shows and film projects. He worked as a writer for

The Waltons ''The Waltons'' is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemp ...

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, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,. He also wrote the mini-series North and South and

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. His papers are located within the American Heritage Center at the university of Wyoming.

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* 1925 births 2020 deaths American male screenwriters American people of Irish descent 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screenwriter-1920s-stub