Raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, Erman began his entertainment path with modest acting parts in mid-century films such as The Cosmic Man before shifting to television direction, where he cut his teeth on series ranging from Peyton Place and The Fugitive to the original Star Trek and The Outer Limits.
His directing résumé soon encompassed landmark miniseries, most notably Roots and its sequel Roots… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Star Trek 1966 M*A*S*H 1972 Roots 1977 The Outer Limits 1963 Series ★ 7.8 The Outer Limits 1963
Series ★ 7.4 Roots 1977
Series ★ 7.6 The Bob Newhart Show 1972
Series ★ 7.5 Roots: The Next Generations 1979
Series ★ 7.2 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 1964
Series ★ 8.8 Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
★ 7.6 Victoria & Albert 2001
Series ★ 7.2 Family 1976
Series ★ 7 Alex Haley's Queen 1993
★ 7.2 Carolina Skeletons 1991
Series ★ 8 Occasional Wife 1966
★ 6.9 David 1988
★ 7.1 Right to Kill? 1985
★ 7.7 The Last Best Year 1990
Series ★ 7.7 Judd, for the Defense 1967
★ 7.1 The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank 1988
★ 9 Another Woman's Child 1983
Series ★ 6.8 Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1965
Series ★ 6.7 Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969
★ 7.5 Letters from Three Lovers 1973
Series ★ 7 Karen 1975
★ 8 Green Eyes 1977
★ 6.7 The Boys Next Door 1996
★ 7 Eleanor, First Lady of the World 1982
Series ★ 7 Good Heavens 1976
★ 7 Just Me and You 1978
Series ★ 6.8 Stoney Burke 1962
Series ★ 6.6 Scarlett 1994
Series ★ 6 Victoria & Albert 2001
★ 6.3 The Last to Go 1991
★ 6.5 Who Will Love My Children? 1983
★ 6.2 This Year's Blonde 1980
Series ★ 5.5 Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke 1999
★ 6.2 The Scarlett O'Hara War 1980
★ 5.3 My Old Man 1979
★ 5.8 A Streetcar Named Desire 1984
★ 4.7 The Letter 1982
★ 4.7 The Silent Lovers 1980
★ 6.1 The Blackwater Lightship 2004
★ 5.6 Breathing Lessons 1994
Series ★ 5 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles 1987
★ 6.1 Ellen Foster 1997
Series ★ 6.1 Room 222 1969
Series ★ 6.3 The Flying Nun 1967
★ 4.2 Making It 1971
Series ★ 5.8 The Atlanta Child Murders 1985
Series ★ 5.9 Ben Casey 1961
★ 5.1 Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies 1973
★ 5.5 Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn 1977
★ 6.1 Candles on Bay Street 2006
Series ★ 6.2 That Girl 1966
Series ★ 6.2 My Favorite Martian 1963
★ 5.5 Only Love 1998
★ 5.6 Child of Glass 1978
★ 5.5 Our Sons 1991
★ 5.8 An Early Frost 1985
★ 5.8 Stella 1990
★ 5 The Sunshine Boys 1996
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