{{Short description|American film director (1914–1981)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} '''Fred J. Feldkamp''' (March 2, 1914 – December 7, 1981) was an American writer, editor, and film producer. He was married to fashion writer Phyllis Dubsky Feldkamp from the 1940s.
==Career==
Feldkamp was born on March 2, 1914, in Newark, New Jersey.<ref name="paper">{{Cite web |title=The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=www.nytimes.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He served in World War II as a correspondent with the Marine Corps in the Pacific.<ref name="paper" /> After the war Feldkamp became a producer of his own films, an editor of the American magazine ''Life'', and a writer for the newsreel "The March of Time."<ref name="paper" /> Feldkamp died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, at the age of 67.<ref name="paper" />
===Films produced===
In 1949, Feldkamp adapted General Dwight D. Eisenhower's book ''Crusade in Europe'' for a 26-part television series which featured actual film footage of World War II and won the Peabody Award.<ref name="paper" /> Additionally, he wrote for another 26-part television series called ''Crusade in the Pacific'' which premiered in 1951.<ref name="movie">"Fred Feldkamp."''IMDb'', 2011. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270991.</ref> He also independently produced three movies, ''Operation Manhunt'' (1954), ''The Silken Affair'' (1956), and ''Triple Cross'' (1966).<ref name="movie" />
===Books edited===
Feldkamp served as a friend and literary editor to American humorist Will Cuppy and worked extensively on many of the author's satirical history essays.<ref name="decline">Feldkamp, Fred J., ed."Introduction." In Cuppy, ''The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody'', VII-X. Boston: Henry Holt and Company, 1950.</ref> After Cuppy died in 1949, both Feldkamp and his wife Phyllis <ref>{{cite web | url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.pdf?id=PACSCL_BMC_USPBmBMCM89 | title=Philadelphia Area Archives }}</ref> sorted through thousands of his close friend's files and notes to finish writing ''The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody'', a piece of historical satire that the writer had been working on for many years.<ref name="decline" /> Due to Feldkamp's dedication and hard work, the book was published in 1950, less than a year after Cuppy's death.<ref name="decline" /> For his deceased friend, he edited another posthumous volume, a comic almanac titled ''How to Get from January to December'', that appeared in 1951.<ref>Feldkamp, Fred J., ed. "Introduction." In Cuppy, ''How to Get from January to December'', VI-X. Boston: Henry Holt and Company, 1951.</ref>
===Books written===
Feldkamp wrote two books about travel. The first, written in 1972, is titled, "[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061224804 ''The Good Life or What's Left of It''] (1972) and was co-authored by his wife [http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.pdf?id=PACSCL_BMC_USPBmBMCM89 Phyllis Feldkamp], a prominent figure in the fashion-writing world from Philly to Paris. This book details the pleasures and enjoyment of life in France.<ref name="good">Feldkamp, Fred and Phyllis Feldkamp, ''The Good Life or What's Left of It''. Indianapolis: Harper's Magazine Press, 1972.</ref> {{ISBN|978-0-06-122480-5}}<ref name="good" /> The second book, *[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061224812 ''Not Everybody's Europe''], written in 1976, provides descriptions and illustrations of Europe, all helpful for traveling the continent.<ref name="Europe">Feldkamp, Fred, ''Not Everybody's Europe''. Indianapolis: Harper's Magazine Press, 1976.</ref> {{ISBN|978-0-06-122481-2}}<ref name="Europe" />
===Articles written===
Feldkamp contributed several articles to the magazine ''The New Yorker''. These include:
* "Benny" (March 11, 1933) <ref name="magazine">"Archive Results for Fred Feldkamp." ''The New Yorker'', https://www.newyorker.com.</ref> * "Relative" with Russell Maloney (October 2, 1937) <ref name="magazine" /> * "The Comment" with E.B. White (August 11, 1939) <ref name="magazine" /> * "[http://www.bookalley.com/shop/bookalley/mon0000044857.html MIXTURE FOR MEN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911005629/http://www.bookalley.com/shop/bookalley/mon0000044857.html |date=September 11, 2011 }}: A Collection of Fact and Humor by Some of the Best Writers of Short Pieces in Our Time" (1947)<ref name="magazine" /> * "The Talk of the Town" with St. Clair McKelway (January 11, 1958)<ref name="magazine" /> * "Cite du Cheval" (June 6, 1970)<ref name="magazine" /> * "Deauville" (August 14, 1971)<ref name="magazine" />
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