Background
Chomsky, Marvin J. was born on May 23, 1929 in New York City.
Chomsky, Marvin J. was born on May 23, 1929 in New York City.
Bachelor of Science, Syracuse University. Master of Arts, Stanford University.
He has also worked as a producer. Chomsky"s early jobs in the motion picture and television industries included work as an art director, set decorator, and producer. Chomsky"s feature film directing credits include Evel Knievel (1971), Live A Little, Steal A Lot (1975), Mackintosh and T.J. (1976), Good Luck, Mission Wyckoff (1979) and Tank (1984).
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-television movies such as Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), Victory at Entebbe (1976), Attica (1980) and Billionaire Boys Club (1987). During the 1970s, Chomsky served as one of the directors for the miniseries Roots, and he also worked on other miniseries such as Holocaust, Inside the Third Reich and Peter the Great.
He also directed Vanessa Redgrave in the 1982 television movie, My Body, My Child, the 1989 miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and David Morse, and the 1995 television movie Catherine the Great, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.