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Marvin J. Chomsky

Director · 1929–2022 · New York City, New York, USA

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.

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1990s

1996
Catherine the Great
Director
1993
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Director
Telling Secrets
Director
1991
The Strauss Dynasty
Director
The Strauss Dynasty
Director

1980s

1989
Brotherhood of the Rose
Director
1988
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Director
1987
Billionaire Boys Club
Director
Billionaire Boys Club
Director
Angel in Green
Director
1986
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Director
The Deliberate Stranger
Director
The Deliberate Stranger
Director
Peter the Great
Director
1985
Robert Kennedy & His Times
Director
1984
Tank
Director
Nairobi Affair
Director
1982
I Was a Mail Order Bride
Director
Inside the Third Reich
Director
My Body, My Child
Director
1981
Evita Peron
Director
1980
King Crab
Director
Attica
Director
Doctor Franken
Director

1970s

1979
Hollow Image
Director
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Director
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Director
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1978
Holocaust
Director
78
1977
Danger in Paradise
Director
Roots
Director
81
Little Ladies of the Night
Director
1976
Victory at Entebbe
Director
Law and Order
Director
Brinks: The Great Robbery
Director
1975
Mackintosh and T.J.
Director
Murph the Surf
Director
Kate McShane
Director
A Matter of Wife... and Death
Director
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Director
1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Director
Mrs. Sundance
Director
1973
The Magician
Director
73
Police Story
Director
74
The Magician
Director
Female Artillery
Director
1972
Family Flight
Director
Banyon
Director
Fireball Forward
Director
Sam Cade
Director
1971
Mongo's Back in Town
Director
Cannon
Director
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Evel Knievel
Director
48
Assault on the Wayne
Director
1970
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
Director
The Interns
Director