Marshall Herskovitz Movies and Career Information

Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer, and currently the President of the Producers Guild of America. Among his productions are Traffic, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, and I Am Sam. Herskovitz has directed two feature films, Jack the Bear and Dangerous Beauty. Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows Thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again, and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series. Herskovitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Frieda (née Schreiber) and Alexander Herskovitz. Herskovitz attended Brandeis University, graduating in 1973. He entered the AFI Conservatory in 1975, where he and Edward Zwick first met. He frequently collaborates with Zwick, with whom he runs the film and television production company The Bedford Falls Company, named for the fictional town in the classic film It's A Wonderful Life. Zwick and Herskovitz' most recent project was the original broadband series Quarterlife, which debuted online through MySpace and a dedicated Webpage. It garnered enough views to be picked up by NBC and aired in 2008, but was