Marvin J. Chomsky

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 …

Directed

1. Star Trek (1966) — Director
2. Mission: Impossible (1966) — Director
3. Roots (1977) — Director
4. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — Director
5. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
6. Tank (1984) — Director
7. The Wild Wild West (1965) — Director
8. Holocaust (1978) — Director
9. Cannon (1971) — Director
10. Catherine the Great (1996) — Director
11. The Deliberate Stranger (1986) — Director
12. Victory at Entebbe (1976) — Director
13. Evel Knievel (1971) — Director
14. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979) — Director
15. Police Story (1973) — Director
16. Billionaire Boys Club (1987) — Director
17. Brotherhood of the Rose (1989) — Director
18. Attica (1980) — Director
19. The Magician (1973) — Director
20. The Name of the Game (1968) — Director
21. Telling Secrets (1993) — Director
22. Peter the Great (1986) — Director
23. I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982) — Director
24. Family Flight (1972) — Director
25. Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) — Director
26. Lancer (1968) — Director
27. Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna (1986) — Director
28. Mongo's Back in Town (1971) — Director
29. Nairobi Affair (1984) — Director
30. Little Ladies of the Night (1977) — Director
31. The Strauss Dynasty (1991) — Director
32. The Magician (1973) — Director
33. Then Came Bronson (1969) — Director
34. I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988) — Director
35. Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985) — Director
36. Angel in Green (1987) — Director
37. Hollow Image (1979) — Director
38. Assault on the Wayne (1971) — Director
39. Mrs. Sundance (1974) — Director
40. Murph the Surf (1975) — Director

Also appeared in

1. How Holocaust came to Television (2019) — Self
2. Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021) — Self
3. Remembering Roots (2002) — Self