Marvin J. Chomsky
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.
66 directing credits · 3 acting credits
Directing · 66

Star Trek
1966

Mission: Impossible
1966

Hawaii Five-O
1968

The Wild Wild West
1965

Cannon
1971

The Name of the Game
1968

Gunsmoke
1955

Roots
1977

Lancer
1968

Police Story
1973

The Magician
1973

Then Came Bronson
1969

Holocaust
1978

Banyon
1972

The Wonderful World of Disney
1961

Peter the Great
1986

Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
1986

The Strauss Dynasty
1991

The Interns
1970

Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985

Brotherhood of the Rose
1989

Inside the Third Reich
1982

The Deliberate Stranger
1986

Billionaire Boys Club
1987

Tank
1984

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975

Catherine the Great
1996

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974

Attica
1980

The Deliberate Stranger
1986

Mongo's Back in Town
1971

Victory at Entebbe
1976

Telling Secrets
1993

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979

Doctor Franken
1980

Evel Knievel
1971

A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975

Brinks: The Great Robbery
1976

Evita Peron
1981

Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993

Mackintosh and T.J.
1975

Mrs. Sundance
1974

Female Artillery
1973

King Crab
1980

I Was a Mail Order Bride
1982

Fireball Forward
1972

Hollow Image
1979

Little Ladies of the Night
1977

Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
1979

Law and Order
1976

Family Flight
1972

I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988

Billionaire Boys Club
1987

The Magician
1973

Assault on the Wayne
1971

The Nurses
1965

Kate McShane
1975

Nairobi Affair
1984

The Strauss Dynasty
1991

Angel in Green
1987

Sam Cade
1972

The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
1970

Murph the Surf
1975

Danger in Paradise
1977

My Body, My Child
1982


