George Bloomfield

George Bloomfield (1930-2011) was a Canadian director for stage, film, and television who helmed many Fraggle Rock episodes throughout the show's five season run. Bloomfield began his career directing shorts for the National Film Board of Canada and television for the CBC, and later moved to the United States of America for a brief stab at feature film directing. This resulted in Jenny, a 1970 romantic comedy, and the anti-Vietnam film To Kill a Clown (1972), both starring Alan Alda.
Returning to Canada in the late seventies, Bloomfield likewise returned to television, directing episodes of SCTV, Friday the 13th: The Series, Road to Avonlea, and serving as head director and creative producer on the comedy-drama Due South. He later directed multiple episodes of the Billy Ray Cyrus series Doc. Bloomfield occasionally acted, including playing a reverend in the 1983 horror movie Spasms (with Gerard Parkes). His nephew was actor Maury Chaykin, whom he directed in episodes of A&E's Nero Wolfe. 
Fraggle Rock writer Sugith Varughese recalled Bloomfield in 2020. "Working with George was fun because he was just so damn entertaining. He’d have a few thoughts about things that he thought might work better and I’d often fix them to his liking, but I don’t recall him being too demanding. He just enjoyed working on the show as much as everyone.""Part two of our interview with Sugith Varughese!", The Muppet Collection Page on Facebook, 3 June 2020.
==Directing credits==
*Fraggle Rock
**Episode 108: The Terrible Tunnel
**Episode 114: The Challenge
**Episode 117: Marooned
**Episode 119: The Great Radish Famine
**Episode 120: The Garden Plot
**Episode 123: The Beast of Blue Rock 
**Episode 124: New Trash Heap in Town
**Episode 201: Wembley's Egg
**Episode 203: The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore 
**Episode 206: Boober's Dream 
**Episode 207: Mokey and the Minstrels 
**Episode 209: Sir Hubris and the Gorgs 
**Episode 212: The Doozer Contest 
**Episode 214: The Secret of Convincing John 
**Episode 216: Junior Sells the Farm 
**Episode 217: Fraggle Wars 
**Episode 220: A Cave of One's Own 
**Episode 221: Wembley and the Great Race 
**Episode 224: The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers 
**Episode 305: Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe 
**Episode 306: Pebble Pox Blues 
**Episode 307: Home Is Where the Trash Is 
**Episode 310: The Secret Society of Poobahs 
**Episode 312: Gobo's School for Explorers 
**Episode 315: Born to Wander 
**Episode 318: Bored Stiff 
**Episode 411: Wonder Mountain 
**Episode 412: Space Frog Follies 
**Episode 510: Inspector Red
*The World of Puppetry with Bruce Schwartz
==Sources==
==External links==
*Fan Biography (archived version)
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Category:Directors