John Erman is an American

United States

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 television

Television director

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 and film director

Film director

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, actor

Actor

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 and producer

Film producer

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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Erman spent the early years of his career, after a few small roles in films such as The Cosmic Man (1957), directing episodes of such primetime series as Peyton Place

Peyton Place (TV series)

Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in...

, The Fugitive

The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...

, The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)

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, Stoney Burke

Stoney Burke

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, Ben Casey

Ben Casey

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, My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...

, That Girl

That Girl

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, The Flying Nun

The Flying Nun

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, Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.

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, ,Star Trek

Star Trek

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, and Judd for the Defense.

Erman directed several episodes of both Roots

Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's fictional novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations, winning nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still...

 and its sequel

Sequel

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, Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations

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, and has helmed numerous television movie

Television movie

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s, including Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn was a NBC made-for-television movie, that was first telecast on May 16, 1977, and was directed by John Erman. It was a sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, which came out the prior year,...

, The Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara

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 War, Eleanor

Eleanor Roosevelt

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, First Lady of the World, Who Will Love My Children?

Who Will Love My Children?

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, A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...

, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles is a 1985 novel by Dominick Dunne based on the sensational Woodward murder case of 1955. It was made into a television movie in 1987, directed by John Erman, and starring Genevieve Allenbury, Ann-Margaret, Elizabeth Ashley, Claudette Colbert and Stephen Collins...

,Right to Kill?

Right to Kill?

The movie Right to Kill? is based on a true story of two teens Richard Jahnke and Deborah Jahnke, who were charged in Wyoming for the killing of their psychotically abusive father, Richard Jahnke, Sr. The made-for-TV movie was filmed at W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas, Texas in 1985 and aired...

, An Early Frost

An Early Frost

An Early Frost was a 1985 TV movie, and the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on the NBC television network on November 11, 1985...

, The Atlanta Child Murders

The Atlanta Child Murders (TV miniseries)

The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Cast:*Calvin Levels - Wayne Williams...

, The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank is a 1988 TV film directed by John Erman, based on Miep Gies' book Anne Frank Remembered.-Plot:...

, David

David (TV film)

David is a drama, the true story of a child named David Rothenberg, who was burned by his father. This made-for-television film co-starred Matthew Lawrence as David, Bernadette Peters as his mother, and John Glover as his father...

, Breathing Lessons

Breathing Lessons

Breathing Lessons is a 1988 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was also Time Magazine's book of the year....

, Scarlett

Scarlett (TV miniseries)

Scarlett is a 1994 six hour miniseries loosely based on the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone with the Wind, written by Alexandra Ripley...

, The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys

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, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that first aired on CBS in 1999 staring motion picture legend Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain. It is based on the book The Richest Girl In The World: by Stephanie Mansfield. In addition to Bob Colacello's profile of Ms...

, The Boys Next Door

The Boys Next Door (1996 film)

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, and Candles on Bay Street

Candles on Bay Street

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, many of which he also produced.

Erman's feature film

Feature film

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 directing credits include Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

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 and Stella

Stella (1990 film)

Stella is a 1990 American drama film produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company and released by Touchstone Pictures. The screenplay by Robert Getchell is the third feature film adaptation of the 1920 novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty....

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Awards and nominations

Awards

• 1978 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series (Roots Part II)
• 1983 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (Who Will Love My Children?
  Who Will Love My Children?
  Who Will Love My Children? is a 1983 made for television biographical film based on the life of Lucile Fray. Lucile Fray was diagnosed with cancer in 1952 and wanted to find suitable homes for her ten children, since she felt her husband could not properly care for them. Prior to her death, she...
  
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• 1986 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials (An Early Frost)
• 2004 Monte Carlo
  Monte Carlo
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  TV Awards Golden Nymph for Best Director - Television Films (The Blackwater Lightship)
• 2004 Monte Carlo TV Awards SIGNIS Prize (The Blackwater Lightship)

Nominations

• 1977 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Roots, Part II)
• 1980 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (The Scarlett O'Hara War)
• 1984 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials (Who Will Love My Children?)
• 1984 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• 1986 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special (An Early Frost)
• 1987 Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles)
• 1988 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special (The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank)
• 1988 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special (The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank)
• 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special (David)
• 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie (Breathing Lessons)

Physical Description and Personal Life

No photographs of Erman seem to exist, nor details of his personal life, leading some to conclude "he" may simply be a pseudonym for one or more other individuals who wish to retain anonymity.

External links

• MSN Movies bio