Full Name Melvin Damski Years active 1978-present | Name Mel Damski Role Director | |
Occupation Film director, television director, producer Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Movies Legendary, Yellowbeard, Mischief, Happy Together, Everybody's Baby: The Rescue o Similar People Steve Franks, Devon Graye, John Posey, Doug McKeon, Catherine Mary Stewart | ||
A PRIMEIRA TRANSA DE JONATHAN Mel Damski / 1985 - Trailer
Melvin "Mel" Damski (born July 21, 1946 in New York, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television.
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- A PRIMEIRA TRANSA DE JONATHAN Mel Damski 1985 Trailer
- Mel Damski invites KARIM ABOUELNAGA and WARREN BUFFET wwwClickTheBuzzercom
- Life and career
- Selected filmography
- References
Mel Damski invites KARIM ABOUELNAGA and WARREN BUFFET www.ClickTheBuzzer.com
Life and career
Mel Damski (born in New York, New York) is an American film director and film producer. Damski has Northern European Jewish heritage, one of four children of German refugee parents. Damski grew up in Roslyn, Long Island, New York and attended Colgate University on a football scholarship. He was a reporter for Long Island Newsday before moving to Los Angeles to attend The American Film Institute in 1972.
Currently Damski is the Producing-Director of "Psych". In addition to his long directing career, including 29 movies and scores of episodes, he has taught film and television at NYU, USC and AFI. He is also President of Lyrique Wine Company, a small family owned winery.
In 1998, Damski, along with Andrea Blaugrund, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for the film Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies.
In 1981, Damski was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding directing in a drama series for the film American Dream.
In 1979, Damski was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding directing in a drama series for the television series Lou Grant (1977) for the episode 'Murder'.
Damski's column "If I Ran The Zoo" runs every Wednesday in the La Conner Weekly News and a week later on his blog http://ifmelranthezoo.com