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 19641995 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 madeforTV movies Later in his career Chomsky worked almost exclusively on madeforTV 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia