Marvin J. Chomsky, Emmy-Winning ‘Star Trek’ Director, Dies at 92

variety.com:

Wilson Chapman editorMarvin J. Chomsky, the Emmy-winning director and producer who helmed episodes of beloved TV shows like “Roots” and “Star Trek,” died Monday, his son Peter Chomsky confirmed to Variety.

He was 92.A prolific director of the small-screen with a career spanning four decades, Chomsky won four Emmys over the course of his career, all for his work on various miniseries or television films: “Holocaust” in 1978, “Attica” in 1980,” “Inside the Third Reich” in 1982 and “Peter the Great” in 1986.

He was additionally nominated for four other Emmys, and won two Director’s Guild of America awards out of four nominations.Born in 1929 in New York City, Chomsky got his start in television as an art director and set director, before scoring his first directing credits in 1964, helming three episodes of medical drama “The Doctors and the Nurses.” Over the course of the 60s and early 70s, he directed episodes of numerous well-known and popular television series, such as “The Wild Wild West,” “Star Trek,” “Gunsmoke,” “The Magical World of Disney,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Police Story” and “Hawaii Five-O.” He also directed several TV movies, starting with “Assault on the Wayne” in 1971.

Chomsky had his breakthrough as a director in 1977, when he helmed two episodes of the groundbreaking ABC miniseries “Roots.” Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel of the same name, “Roots” told the story of a family of enslaved Black people in the American South over the course of several generations.