Marvin J. Chomsky
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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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Movies (43)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021 · Self
How Holocaust came to Television
2019 · Self
Remembering Roots
2002 · Self
Catherine the Great
1996 · Director, Producer
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993 · Director, Producer
Telling Secrets
1993 · Director
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Director
I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988 · Director
Billionaire Boys Club
1987 · Director
Angel in Green
1987 · Director
The Deliberate Stranger
1986 · Producer, Director
Tank
1984 · Director
Nairobi Affair
1984 · Director
I Was a Mail Order Bride
1982 · Director
My Body, My Child
1982 · Director
Evita Peron
1981 · Director, Producer
King Crab
1980 · Director
Attica
1980 · Director
Doctor Franken
1980 · Director
Hollow Image
1979 · Director
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
1979 · Director
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979 · Director
Danger in Paradise
1977 · Director
Little Ladies of the Night
1977 · Director
Victory at Entebbe
1976 · Director
Law and Order
1976 · Director
Brinks: The Great Robbery
1976 · Director
Mackintosh and T.J.
1975 · Director
Murph the Surf
1975 · Director
Kate McShane
1975 · Director
A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975 · Director
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 · Director
Mrs. Sundance
1974 · Director
The Magician
1973 · Director
Female Artillery
1973 · Director
Family Flight
1972 · Director
Fireball Forward
1972 · Director
Sam Cade
1972 · Director
Mongo's Back in Town
1971 · Director
Evel Knievel
1971 · Director
Assault on the Wayne
1971 · Director
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
1970 · Director
The Bubble
1966 · Associate Producer, Art Direction
TV shows (27)
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Director
Brotherhood of the Rose
1989 · Director, Producer
Billionaire Boys Club
1987 · Director
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
1986 · Director, Producer
The Deliberate Stranger
1986 · Director
Peter the Great
1986 · Producer, Director
Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985 · Director
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Director
Holocaust
1978 · Director
Roots
1977 · Director
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 · Director
The Magician
1973 · Director
Police Story
1973 · Director
Banyon
1972 · Director
Cannon
1971 · Director
The Interns
1970 · Director
Then Came Bronson
1969 · Director
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Director
Lancer
1968 · Director
The Name of the Game
1968 · Director
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Director
Star Trek
1966 · Director
The Nurses
1965 · Director
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Director
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961 · Director
Tony Awards
1956 · Settings
Gunsmoke
1955 · Director