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Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer, and currently the President Emeritus 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. ==Life and career== Herskovitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family, 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''. Their most recent project is the film "Love and Other Drugs". In 2007 Herskovitz ventured into the world of broadband production with the original series ''Quarterlife'', which debuted on MySpace and a dedicated social network also called "quarterlife". It garnered enough views to be picked up by NBC and aired in 2008, but was quickly canceled. Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at ''The Huffington Post''. Herskovitz was featured in The Dialogue interview series. In this 90-minute interview with journalist Jay A. Fernandez, he delves into the mediocrity of the industry, the voices that writers hear in their heads and why it's best to write first and ask questions later. Herskovitz served as president of the Producers Guild of America from 2006–2010. He was married to screenwriter Susan Shilliday from 1981–1993. They have two daughters. Herskovitz married photographer Landry Major in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marshall Herskovitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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