Alfred R. Kelman

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Alfred R. Kelman
Kelman in 2016
Born	(1936-05-17) May 17, 1936 (age 88) Bronx, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Television producer, Television director

Alfred R. Kelman (born May 17, 1936) is an American film and television documentary producer and director, renowned for his work on The Body Human and the 1984 television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring George C. Scott.

Kelman's career commenced in 1962 during the early era of live television as a director for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, WBZ-TV Boston. In 1966, he received an Academy Award nomination for his documentary The Face of a Genius, a film about the Nobel Prize-winning American playwright Eugene O'Neill. This nomination was historically significant as it was the first time a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Kelman is a graduate scholar in mass communications (1959) and studied public opinion at Boston University under the auspices of WGBH, also serving as a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies. In 1968, he became a principal of Medcom, a publicly traded company pioneering in the dissemination of medical knowledge to physicians and the public. As the producer, director, and co-creator of the groundbreaking CBS documentary series The Body Human (1977), which explored the relationship between biochemistry, medicine, and human behavior,^[1] he paved the way for Lifeline, a documentary television series on NBC.

Kelman has won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary three times and has earned seven Emmy Awards for his work on Lifeline and The Body Human. He is notable for his transition from documentary filmmaking to a 25-year career producing films and miniseries for television.