Alexander Singer born 18 April 1928 in New York City New York died 28 December 2020 was an American director He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary Day of the Fight directed by his high school friend Stanley Kubrick Singer turned to directing a decade later with the film A Cold Wind in August Although he directed other films such as the Lee Van Cleef western Captain Apache 1971 and Glass Houses 1972 an adaptation of a book that his wife Judith Singer wrote the bulk of Singers credits are in television The long list of series to which Singer has lent his directorial talents include Dr Kildare The FBI Mission Impossible Alias Smith and Jones Nakia Police Woman Cagney Lacey MacGyver six episodes of The Monkees and three Star Trek series The Next Generation Deep Space Nine and Voyager Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Singer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia