Biography
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 sever...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Trial by Fire
2019
Executive Producer
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and ...

Woman Walks Ahead
2018
Producer
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 wit...

Up to Snuff
2018
as Self
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 ...

American Assassin
2017
Screenplay
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...

The Great Wall
2016
Story
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Screenplay
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...

About Alex
2014
Executive Producer
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 l...

Love & Other Drugs
2010
Screenplay, Producer
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 inf...
A Marriage
2009
Director
A Marriage film.

Blood Diamond
2006
Producer
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

The Last Samurai
2003
Producer, Screenplay
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 th...

Women vs. Men
2002
Executive Producer
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 a...

Lone Star State of Mind
2002
Executive Producer
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...

I Am Sam
2001
Producer
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. ...

Traffic
2000
Producer
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 Poli...

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self

Dangerous Beauty
1998
Director, Producer
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Legends of the Fall
1994
Producer
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...

Jack the Bear
1993
Director
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 ...

Extreme Close-Up
1990
Writer, Executive Producer
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 th...

Special Bulletin
1983
Story, Teleplay, Producer
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...
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Marshall Herskovitz
N/A
Writer, director, producer MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ is one of the most prominent figures in film and television. With partner Ed Zwick, whom he met while a...
The Making Of
N/A
Writer, Producer
Long-married filmmakers have cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves in the story of their great love. Unfortunately, by the time sh...
Soul ReViver
N/A
Producer
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 ...

Billy Summers
N/A
Writer
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 ...