Mel Stuart (born 2 September 1928) is an American film director and producer.
Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). He has directed other features, including If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1968), One is a Lonely Number (1974) and Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000).
Stuart also directed feature documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax.
In addition he has directed or produced over 150 films including movies of the week, "The Triangle Factory Fire, Bill, The Chisholms, and Ruy and Oswald, the television series Ripley's Believe it Not, and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960,1964, and 1968, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man Ray - The Prophet of the Avant-Garde, George Plimpton and the PHilharmonic and The Poet's View. He has been awarded four Emmy's, an Academy nomination, a Peabody and numerous other awards. He served as president of the International Documentary Association for two years.
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