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Name  Marvin Chomsky
Role  Television Director
Education  Syracuse University

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Born  May 23, 1929 (age 92) (1929-05-23) New York City, United States
Occupation  Film & television director
Awards  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Nominations  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Special
Movies  Catherine the Great, Anastasia: The Mystery o, Victory at Entebbe, Good Luck - Miss Wyckoff, Tank
Similar People  Jan Niklas, Nicolas Surovy, Anna Anderson, Lawrence Schiller, Olivia de Havilland

Marvin J Chomsky Wins Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series For HOLOCAUST | Emmy Archive 1978


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 to American philosopher Noam Chomsky.

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Holocaust (Marvin J. Chomsky, 1978, 29 59)


Early life

Born in New York City, Chomsky graduated from Syracuse University in 1950.

Career

Chomsky's early jobs in the motion picture and television industries included work as an art director, set decorator, and producer.

Chomsky's feature film directing credits include Evel Knievel (1971), Live A Little, Steal A Lot (1975), Mackintosh and T.J. (1976), Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979) and Tank (1984).

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 such as Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), Victory at Entebbe (1976), Attica (1980) and Billionaire Boys Club (1987). During the 1970s, Chomsky served as one of the directors for the miniseries Roots, and he also worked on other miniseries such as Holocaust, Inside the Third Reich and Peter the Great. He also directed Vanessa Redgrave in the 1982 TV movie, My Body, My Child, the 1989 miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and David Morse, and the 1995 TV movie Catherine the Great, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Awards

Chomsky 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.

References

Marvin J. Chomsky Wikipedia