Marvin J. Chomsky

Marvin J. Chomsky

  • Birthday: 1929-05-23
  • Deathday: 2022-03-28
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Marvin Chomsky

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Marvin J. Chomsky (born May 23, 1929) is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer. He is a cousin of academic Noam Chomsky. Born in New York City, Chomsky graduated from Syracuse University in 1950. His early jobs in the motion picture and television industries included work as an art director, set decorator, and producer. His feature film directing credits include Evel Knievel and Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff. Chomsky is a prolific television director, and his career spanned from 1964-1995. During the late 1960s, Chomsky directed eleven episodes of the television series The Wild Wild West. He also directed episodes of Star Trek and Gunsmoke. Besides directing individual episodes for television series, Chomsky directed made-for-TV movies. Later in his career, Chomsky worked almost exclusively on made-for-TV movies and miniseries. During the 1970s, Chomsky served as one of the directors for the miniseries Roots: The Saga of an American Family. In 1982 he directed Vanessa Redgrave in the TV movie, My Body, My Child and in 1989 the miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and David Morse. He is the winner of three Emmy Awards: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Holocaust in 1978; Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special for Attica in 1980 and for Inside the Third Reich in 1982. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marvin J. Chomsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Production

The Bubble

1966

As Art Direction

Angel in Green

1987

As Director

Tank

1984

As Director

Victory at Entebbe

1976

As Director

Catherine the Great

1996

As Director

The Deliberate Stranger

1986

As Director

Assault on the Wayne

1971

As Director

Doctor Franken

1980

As Director

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

1979

As Director

Evel Knievel

1971

As Director

Mongo's Back in Town

1971

As Director

Family Flight

1972

As Director

Mrs. Sundance

1974

As Director

Female Artillery

1973

As Director

Nairobi Affair

1984

As Director

Attica

1980

As Director

Evita Peron

1981

As Director

Fireball Forward

1972

As Director

The Strauss Dynasty

1991

As Director

Telling Secrets

1993

As Director

Murph the Surf

1975

As Director

Inside the Third Reich

1982

As Director

My Body, My Child

1982

As Director

The Magician

1973

As Director

I Was a Mail Order Bride

1982

As Director

Brinks: The Great Robbery

1976

As Director

Mackintosh and T.J.

1975

As Director

Billionaire Boys Club

1987

As Director

Law and Order

1976

As Director

King Crab

1980

As Director

Sam Cade

1972

As Director

Hollow Image

1979

As Director

Kate McShane [Pilot]

1975

As Director

Danger in Paradise

1977

As Director

The Bubble

1966

As Associate Producer

Catherine the Great

1996

As Producer

The Deliberate Stranger

1986

As Producer

Evita Peron

1981

As Producer

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