Robert Markowitz
2021Robert Markowitz (born February 7, 1935 in Irvington, New Jersey) is an American film/television director. He has directed a number television films that include Too Young to Die? (1990), Decoration Day (1990), The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), The Great Gatsby (2000), The Pilot's Wife (2003), Word of Honor (2003) and among other films.
He also directed episodes Delvecchio, Serpico and the anthology series Amazing Stories.
His last directing credit was the TNT television film Avenger (2003) starring Sam Elliott and Timothy Hutton.
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Alex: The Life of a Child
Robert Markowitz
Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia
Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.
Alex: The Life of a Child
Decoration Day
Robert Markowitz
James Garner, Judith Ivey
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
Decoration Day
A Long Way Home
Robert Markowitz
Timothy Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro
A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape.
A Long Way Home
The Tuskegee Airmen
Robert Markowitz
Лоуренс Фишборн, Allen Payne
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Nicholas' Gift
Robert Markowitz
Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.
Nicholas’ Gift
The Wall
Robert Markowitz
Tom Conti, Lisa Eichhorn
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
The Wall
My Mother's Secret Life
Robert Markowitz
Loni Anderson, Paul Sorvino
16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her, she finds out her mother is a high priced call-girl.
My Mother's Secret Life
Word of Honor
Robert Markowitz
Don Johnson, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.
Word of Honor
The Deadliest Season
Robert Markowitz
Michael Moriarty, Kevin Conway
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
The Deadliest Season
Small Vices
Robert Markowitz
Bested on the best-selling novel by author Robert B. Parker, Joe Mantegna is Spenser - Boston's best-known private eye. Called upon to investigate a case of murder, corruption, and betrayal, the super sleuth finds himself marked for death and on the run from a ruthless international assassin.
Small Vices
Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Robert Markowitz
James Earl Jones, Amy Irving
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
