Marvin J. Chomsky

Director, Producer

23 May 1929 — 28 March 2022 (92 years)
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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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
    Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna2 episodes
  • Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel1971

Known For

  • Roots
    Roots16 episodes
  • Star Trek
    Star Trek3 seasons
  • Tank
    Tank1984
  • Holocaust
    Holocaust4 episodes
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West4 seasons
  • The Deliberate Stranger
    The Deliberate Stranger2 episodes
  • Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
    Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna2 episodes
  • Catherine the Great
    Catherine the Great1996
  • Billionaire Boys Club
    Billionaire Boys Club2 episodes
  • Victory at Entebbe
    Victory at Entebbe1976
  • Peter the Great
    Peter the Great4 episodes
  • Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel1971
  • Brotherhood of the Rose
    Brotherhood of the Rose2 episodes
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible7 seasons
  • Attica
    Attica1980
  • Death of a Salesman
    Death of a Salesman1966
  • Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
    Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff1979
  • Evita Peron
    Evita Peron1981
  • Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O12 seasons
  • Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke20 seasons

Filmography

2000
ZDF-History · as Self
1987
Biography · as Self
1982
1978

1987
Billionaire Boys Club · as Supervising Producer
1966
The Bubble · as Art Direction
1962
The Doctors and the Nurses · as Art Director
1959
The Play of the Week · as Set Decorator
1955
Gunsmoke · as Art Director
1954
Camera Three · as Art Director