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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.
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Filmography
all 68
Director 61
Movies 44
TV Shows 24
Producer 4
self 2
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
How Holocaust came to Television (2019)
Catherine the Great (1996)
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993)
Telling Secrets (1993)
Strauss Dynasty (1991)
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)
Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988)
Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
Angel in Green (1987)
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna (1986)
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Peter the Great (1986)
Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985)
Tank (1984)
Nairobi Affair (1984)
I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982)
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
My Body, My Child (1982)
Evita Peron (1981)
King Crab (1980)
Attica (1980)
Doctor Franken (1980)
Hollow Image (1979)
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration (1979)
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Holocaust (1978)
Danger in Paradise (1977)
Roots (1977)
Little Ladies of the Night (1977)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Law and Order (1976)
Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976)
Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)
Murph the Surf (1975)
A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975)
Kate McShane [Pilot] (1975)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974)
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
The Magician (1973)
Police Story (1973)
The Magician (1973)
Female Artillery (1973)
Family Flight (1972)
Banyon (1972)
Fireball Forward (1972)
Sam Cade (1972)
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
Cannon (1971)
Evel Knievel (1971)
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City (1970)
The Interns (1970)
Then Came Bronson (1969)
Lancer (1968)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Bubble (1966)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Star Trek (1966)
The Nurses (1965)
The Wild Wild West (1965)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1961)
Tony Awards (1956)
Gunsmoke (1955)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1929-05-23
Deathday2022-03-28 (92 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
RelativesNoam Chomsky
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsMarvin Chomsky
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special, Primetime Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
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