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Lionel Chetwynd Biography (1940-)

Born January 29, 1940, in London, England; immigrated to Canada, 1948, naturalized citizen, 1953; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Peter and Betty (maidenname, Dion) Chetwynd; married Gloria Carlin (an actress); children: MichaelAnthony, Joshua Stephen.

Nationality

Canadian, American

Ethnicity

British

Gender

Male

Occupation

Producer, writer

Birth Details

January 29, 1940

London, United Kingdom

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Executive Producer; Series
• National Desk, PBS, 1997
• Director; Movies
• So Proudly We Hail (also known as Skinheads), CBS, 1990
• Varian's War, Showtime, 2000
• Executive Producer; Movies
• Evil in Clear River (also known as Hate on Trial and Winter in Clear River), ABC, 1988
• So Proudly We Hail (also known as Skinheads), CBS, 1990
• Kissinger and Nixon, TNT, 1995
• Producer; Movies
• (With Gerry Arbeid) Goldenrod, CBS, 1977
• Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, NBC, 1977
• Color of Justice, Showtime, 1997
• Executive Producer; Specials
• "To Heal a Nation," General Electric Theatre, NBC, 1988
• "Fear in America," Reverse Angle, PBS, 1992
• "The Education Wars," Reverse Angle, PBS, 1993
• Other
• Supervising producer of The Godfather Wars.
• Television Appearances
• Himself, Hollywood, D.C., 2000
• Film Work
• Director
• Morning Comes, Heritage Films, 1975
• Two Solitudes, New World-Mutual, 1978
• The Hanoi Hilton, Cannon, 1987
• Director and supervising producer of the film Redline.
• WRITINGS
• Plays
• Bleeding Great Orchids, produced in London, then off-Broadway, 1971
• Maybe That's Your Problem (musical), produced in London, 1971 published by Plays, Inc., 1971
• (With others) We the People ... 200, 1987
• Screenplays
• (With Mordecai Richler) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (alsoknown as L'apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz; based on the novel by Mordecai Richler), Paramount, 1974
• Morning Comes, Heritage Films, 1975
• The American 1776 (official U.S. Bicentennial Film), 1976
• Two Solitudes (based on a novel by Hugh McLennan), New World-Mutual, 1978
• (Author of story with Robert Altman and Patricia Resnick) Quintet,Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
• (As Peter Dion) The Hot Touch, Astral Films, 1981
• The Hanoi Hilton, Cannon, 1987
• Also author of Redline.
• Teleplays
• Miniseries
• Miracle on Ice, ABC, 1981
• Sadat, syndicated, 1983
• Joseph (also known as The Bible: Joseph and Joseph in Egypt), TNT, 1995
• Moses (also known as The Bible: Moses), TNT, 1996
• Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy (also known as Incident at RubyRidge and The Siege at Ruby Ridge), CBS, 1996
• NetForce (also known as Tom Clancy's Netforce), ABC, 1999
• P. T. Barnum, Arts and Entertainment, 1999
• Movies
• Goldenrod (based on a novel by D. H. Harkin), CBS, 1977
• It Happened One Christmas (based on the film It's a Wonderful Life), ABC, 1977
• Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, NBC, 1977
• A Whale for the Killing (based on the book by Farley Mowat), ABC,1980
• Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (also known as Desert Blades; based on a story by Chetwynd), CBS, 1981
• Children in the Crossfire, NBC, 1984
• So Proudly We Hail, CBS, 1990
• Doomsday Gun, HBO, 1994
• Jacob (also known as Jacob: A TNT Bible Story), TNT, 1994
• Falling from the Sky! Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174), ABC, 1995
• Kissinger and Nixon, TNT, 1995
• The Man Who Captured Eichmann, TNT, 1996
• Color of Justice, Showtime, 1997
• Varian's War, Showtime, 2000
• Specials
• "To Heal a Nation," General Electric Theatre, NBC, 1988
• The Heroes of Desert Storm, ABC, 1991
• "Fear in America," Reverse Angle, PBS, 1992
• "The Education Wars," Reverse Angle, PBS, 1993
• Episodic
• Writer of episodes for National Desk, PBS.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• New Republic, April 27, 1987, p. 26
• New York, April 13, 1987, p. 90