Christian I. Nyby II is an American

United States

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 television director

Television director

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Nyby graduated from Van Nuys High School

Van Nuys High School

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 in Van Nuys, California

California

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 in 1959. He attended the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

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 for two years before transferring to the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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. Nyby was sent to Vietnam

Vietnam

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 as a photographer for the United States Air Force

United States Air Force

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 in 1963.

In 1967, Nyby became an assistant director for Ironside

Ironside (TV series)

Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...

, and by 1972 received his first directing credits for Ironside episode “Find a Victim”, and Adam-12

Adam-12

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episode “The Tip”. Nyby went on to direct multiple episodes of Emergency!

Emergency!

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, Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

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, B.J. and the Bear

B.J. and the Bear

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, CHiPs

CHiPs

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, The A-Team

The A-Team

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(5 episodes total, 2 in Season One and 3 in Season Two), The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

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, Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues

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, Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder

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, and Walker, Texas Ranger

Walker, Texas Ranger

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. He directed the Tales of the Gold Monkey

Tales of the Gold Monkey

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episode "Trunk From the Past", and the pilot episode of the unsold 1988 Remo Williams series. Nyby also directed numerous Perry Mason

Perry Mason

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television movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nyby’s father, Christian Nyby

Christian Nyby

Christian Nyby was an American television and film director.Born in Los Angeles, California, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s. During this period, he worked on four films for famous director Howard Hawks, of which one led to an Academy Award nomination...

, also a television director (as well as a film editor and director) directed multiple episodes of the original Perry Mason

Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

series.

Nyby considers his Hill Street Blues episodes as his favorites.

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