Marvin J. Chomsky, 4-Time Emmy-Winning Director on ‘Roots’ and ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 92
thewrap.cominterview with the Director’s Guild of America, he explained that his stories were never about broad-scale events but always focused on the individual families at their core.
In the same interview, he even recounted a story while filming “Holocaust” about instructing a group of extras on how they would be killed by Nazi forces in the concentration camps, only for a cameraman to push back and suggest that the scene was embellished and invented for the movie.
Born in New York, Chomsky’s work in Hollywood dates back to the late 1950s when he worked as an art director and set decorator before moving into both producing and directing, including first on the series “The Doctors and the Nurses” in 1964 and ’65.
Chomsky is survived by his three sons David, Eric and his youngest, Peter (wife Genelle), as well as his only granddaughter Liliana, an actress and aspiring screenwriter.
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