Marshall Herskovitz

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BIRTHDAY

February 23, 1952

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

RECENT CREDITS

Defiance (FILM) Dec. 31, 2008

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribu... (TV) Jul. 8, 2008

Quarterlife (TV) Feb. 26, 2008

Blood Diamond (FILM) Dec. 8, 2006

Generation Boom (TV) Sep. 26, 2006

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A leading TV writer, producer and director who segued to feature directing with "Jack the Bear" (1993), Marshall Herskovitz began his career as a writer on the TV series "Family", "The White Shadow" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". He went on to collaborate with fellow AFI alumnus Edward Zwick on "Special Bulletin" (NBC, 1983), a critically-esteemed, TV-movie about nuclear terrorism which garnered him his first two Emmy awards. In 1985, Herskovitz and Zwick formed the Bedford Falls Company. Their first project under the banner was the polished yuppie-angst drama "thirtysomething" (ABC, 1987-91). The two subsequent series produced by the Bedford Falls Company, My So-Called Life" (ABC, 1994-95) and "Relativity" (ABC, 1996-97), both received critical kudos and found a fiercely loyal, albeit small, audience. Herskovitz returned to the big screen with the period romance "Dangerous Beauty" (1998), starring Catherine McCormack and Rufus Sewell.

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