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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February 23, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Job Titles:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Significant Others
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Wife: . married in 1978; divorced in 1993
Education
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American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California, directing, MFA
Milestones
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1975 Accepted to AFI on the basis of In Footsteps
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1975 Wrote and directed first short-film, In Footsteps
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1976 Awarded a directing fellowship at AFI
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1978 Directed first feature-length film while at AFI, Cambridge Nights
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1983 First collaboration with Edward Zwick, Special Bulletin
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1983 TV-movie producing and screenwriting debut, Special Bulletin
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1985 Formed the Bedford Falls Company with Zwick
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1987 Co-creator, writer, co-executive producer and occasional director on the series thirtysomething ; produced under Bedford Falls banner
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1989 Co-executive producer on the NBC series Dream Street
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1993 Feature directorial debut, Jack the Bear
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1994 Prodcued Legends of the Fall , directed by Zwick
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1998 Directed Dangerous Beauty
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1999 With Zwick, returned to series TV as creators and executive producers of the drama series Once and Again (ABC)
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2000 Served as one of the producers of the acclaimed film Traffic ; earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination
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Executived produced the critically-acclaimed but low-rated cult series My So-Called Life (ABC)
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Met Edward Zwick while attending AFI
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Signed deal with ABC to create three new series, including one that would star Bob Saget
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Was executive producer of Relativity (ABC)
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Wrote episodes for the TV series Family , The White Shadow and Seven Bride for Seven Brothers