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A television director by the mid '50s, Mulligan made his theatrical-feature debut in 1957 with the biopic of baseball player Jimmy Piersall, Fear Strikes Out, produced by Alan J. Pakula. He helmed a series of admired dramas for Pakula: To Kill a Mockingbird, Love With the Proper Stranger, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Inside Daisy Clover, Up the Down Staircase, The Stalking Moon. Mulligan's output became more sporadic and less distinguished after Pakula became a producer/director in the '70s; his notable later work includes The Pursuit of Happiness, Summer of '42, Bloodbrothers, and Same Time Next Year.