Don Medford, a prolific TV director who helmed the final installment of the landmark 1960s ABC drama The Fugitive -- at the time the most-watched series episode in history -- has died. He was 95.
Medford died Dec. 12 at West Hills (Calif.) Hospital and Medical Center, his daughter Lynn told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. Medford had been a resident of the Motion Picture & Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills since 2001, she said.
In a career that spanned nearly a half-century, Medford also directed The Organization (1971), the third film in which Sidney Poitier played Detective Virgil Tibbs, and the Western The Hunting Party, also released in 1971, starring Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen.
But Medford made his mark in television. He helmed 26 episodes of the 1980s primetime soap Dynasty; 32 episodes of The F.B.I., which ran from 1965-74; 19 episodes of the '70s crime drama Baretta (he also wrote a pair); and 13 episodes of The Detectives, another cop series that starred Robert Taylor and Tige Andrews and aired from 1959-62. He also did five episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "A Passage for Trumpet," starring Jack Klugman, who died Dec. 24. ...
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