Marshall Herskovitz

thirtysomething

Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.

Release Date1987-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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Episode Count5

Vote Count27

Once and Again

The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father.

Release Date1999-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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Episode Count12

Vote Count20

Up to Snuff

A humorous and poignant look at the man behind the music; W.G. Snuffy Walden has written the soundtrack of our lives. Friends and collaborators share stories, laughs and insights about this gentle soul with a compassionate heart and generous spirit. Overcoming challenges and loss, Snuffy has quietly worked behind the scenes to mentor, inspire and elevate those around him while becoming one of the most successful television composers of our generation.

Release Date2018-03-14

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Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

Release Date2000-12-19

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Vote Count2

Frank Capra's American Dream

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Release Date1997-01-01

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Vote Count6

Nashville

Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business.

Release Date2012-10-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count22

Vote Count237

Family

The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.

Release Date1976-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count15

My So-Called Life

The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.

Release Date1994-08-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count144

Love & Other Drugs

Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

Release Date2010-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5330

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Release Date2003-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7132

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

Release Date2016-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5047

The Great Wall

European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Release Date2016-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count5307

Blood Diamond

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Release Date2006-12-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7894

American Assassin

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

Release Date2017-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3112

Legends of the Fall

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

Release Date1994-12-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2694

I Am Sam

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

Release Date2001-12-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2351

Traffic

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Release Date2000-12-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2244

Dangerous Beauty

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.

Release Date1998-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count283

Trial by Fire

The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.

Release Date2019-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count242

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is an American musical television series loosely based on the film, which ran on CBS from September 19, 1982 to March 23, 1983.

Release Date1982-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Woman Walks Ahead

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

Release Date2018-06-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count183

Quarterlife

A group of twenty-something artists are coming of age in the digital generation.

Release Date2008-02-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Lone Star State of Mind

Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.

Release Date2002-04-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count48

Jack the Bear

Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.

Release Date1993-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count56

About Alex

When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

Release Date2014-08-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count151

Dream Street

Dream Street is an American drama series that aired on NBC from April 13, 1989 to June 7, 1989. The series was filmed on location in Hoboken, New Jersey and was from Thirtysomething creators Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

Release Date1989-04-13

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Special Bulletin

An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.

Release Date1983-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count25

Extreme Close-Up

Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.

Release Date1990-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Billy Summers

Billy Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (he actually pours himself into the prose). He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Making Of

Long-married filmmakers have cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves in the story of their great love. Unfortunately, by the time shooting begins, their fabled marriage is unraveling. The filmmakers want to make a hit; the actors want to tell the true story. Whose version really is the truth? And how do they distinguish between real love and movie love when their lives and their work become hopelessly intertwined?

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Women vs. Men

Seeking the excitement that was once part of their married lives, Bruce and Michael slip out one night to a gentleman's club. When their wives, Dana and Brit, discover this boys-night-out activity, the husbands are booted from their homes. In the men's ensuing efforts to get back into their wives' good graces, their previously unspoken views about marriage and women begin to surface to disturbing effect for their wives.

Release Date2002-08-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count6

Soul ReViver

If a soul is taken back before it disappears, dead people can be revived. "Salvage of soul" is held between dead and nothing. Toru Fujisawa creates a thrilling fantasy action. Now, raise the curtain.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

A Marriage

A Marriage film.

Release Date2009-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

TV Revolution

By blending history with the portrayal of sex, violence, minorities, women and homosexuality on television, "TV Revolution" touches on some of the greatest and most controversial moments of the small screen.

Release Date2004-05-23

Episode Count2

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Marshall Herskovitz

Writer, director, producer MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ is one of the most prominent figures in film and television. With partner Ed Zwick, whom he met while attending the American Film Institute, Herskovitz created and executive produced the highly-acclaimed television shows thirtysomething and Once and Again, and wrote the film The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise. He served as producer on the films Traffic, I Am Sam and Dangerous Beauty, which he also directed. In this revealing interview, you ll learn his theories on why writing is hallucinatory, directing is a samurai job, and how movies are like aircraft carriers.