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Jeannot Szwarc

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Paris, France
  • Birthday: November 21, 1937
  • 1980

    Directed "Somewhere in Time"

  • 1978

    Helmed sequel "Jaws 2"

  • 1973

    First feature film, "Extreme Close-up/Sex Through a Window"; script by Michael Crichton

  • 1972

    First TV-movie "Night of Terror" (ABC)

  • 1971

    Directed about 20 episodes of "Night Gallery"

  • 1967

    Hired by Universal as temporary worker; wrote 70 page speculative script

  • 1967

    Named as associate producer on NBC's "Ironside", starring Raymond Burr

  • Decided to pursue career in film instead of attending a doctoral program at Harvard

  • Formed theater group while in college

  • Founded cinema club in college

  • Moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s

  • Pitched script to NBC; network bought idea and put Szwarc under contract

  • Served as associate producer on "Chrysler Theatre"

  • TV directing debut, episode of "Ironside"

  • Worked as TV director on series like "The Men From Shiloh", "The Virginian", "Marcus Welby, M.D." and others

  • Worked in Paris first as production assistant, later as a second unit director

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