Daniel Duchovny Explained

Daniel Duchovny
Birth Name:Daniel Miller Duchovny
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Other Names:Danny Ducovny
Yearsactive:1980–present
Father:Amram Ducovny
Relatives:David Duchovny (brother)
West Duchovny (niece)
Occupation:Actor, director[1]

Daniel Miller Duchovny (known as Danny Ducovny; also credited as Daniel Ducovny) is an actor and a director of commercials.[2]

Early life

Duchovny was born in New York City in 1956.[3] He is the son of Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee, and Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher.[4] [5] He is the first son and the oldest child of three children. He has a younger brother, David (b. 1960) and a younger sister, Laurie (b. 1966).[6] Duchovny's mother is a Scottish immigrant from Whitehills, Aberdeen, Scotland.[7] [8] His father was Jewish, and his mother was Lutheran.[9] [10] [11] [12] His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.[4] [13] [14] In the Polish language, duchowny means 'clergyman', and in the Ukrainian language it means 'spiritual'. Duchovny's paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Ukraine, and Duchovny's paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Congress Poland (now in Poland).[15] [16] [17] [18]

Career

In 1990, he founded his production company, Cucoloris, with partner Linda Stewart.[19] Before moving into directing commercials and the occasional TV series episode, he had worked on several movies in the camera department.[20]

Filmography

2008 - "Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (Californication episode) - director
1999 - "The Unnatural" - guest appearance in this The X-Files episode, which was written and directed by his brother David
1994 - "You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses" (Red Shoe Diaries episode) - director
1988 - Vibes - New York director of photography
1987 - Tough Guys Don't Dance - additional photographer
1986 - Jumpin' Jack Flash - second unit director of photography
1983 - Lillian Gish - first assistant camera
1982 - - Cameraman
1980 - Missing Persons - director of photography
1980 - Fist of Fear, Touch of Death - camera operator
1980 - We Are the Guinea Pigs - assistant camera and second unit camera operator

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Working with superstar director @danny Duchovny looking good behind the rig . instagram.com.
  2. Web site: Looking stop by for a trim famous director @Danny Duchovny . instagram.com.
  3. News: Monitor. Entertainment Weekly. August 9, 2013. 1271. 22.
  4. News: Amram Ducovny, 75, Late-Blossoming Novelist . The New York Times . Don R. . Hecker. September 2, 2003. May 1, 2010.
  5. Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio
  6. Web site: Happy Birthday Meg Miller Duchovny! The double snowman—88! We love you! Danny David and Laurie . instagram.com.
  7. Web site: Craig Ferguson 8/10/10C Late Late Show David Duchovny. https://web.archive.org/web/20110206143039/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=DAxE3-7IMGY. 2011-02-06. YouTube . March 21, 2011.
    ... my father being a Russian Jew ....
  8. Web site: My Kind of Day - David Duchovny . Radio Times . Dec 1995 . November 13, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331232341/http://duchovny.net/articles/radiotimes2.htm . March 31, 2012 . dead .
    My relatives are Scottish, so I think my Scottish audience is important. Some are in Glasgow, but my mum's from Aberdeen. I hear it's grey there—like my mum. The name's Russian, but New York is my home. That's where I'm from.
  9. Web site: David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: A Man and His 'X'. Duchovny.net. October 26, 1997. March 21, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20130119064603/http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm. January 19, 2013. dead.
    I like that I look like my father and mother put together—that's a Russian Jew and a Scottish Lutheran, and I like that it all looks mixed up. ... I'm sure my nose wasn't an asset until I was David Duchovny. Before that, it was, like, "Yeah, that kind of Jewish-looking guy with the kind of big nose."
  10. News: David Duchovny: 'My fantasy was to be Nietzsche'. The Independent. June 10, 2004. May 5, 2018.
  11. Web site: Vladimir. Kozlov. David Duchovny's Russian Beer Commercial Goes Viral (Video). The Hollywood Reporter. July 29, 2014. May 5, 2018.
  12. David. Wild. X-Files Undercover. Rolling Stone. May 16, 1996. May 5, 2018.
  13. Web site: David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: Cult Times 1997. Duchovny.net. March 21, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20080124023415/http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm. January 24, 2008. dead.
  14. Web site: Groucho Reviews: Interview: David Duchovny—House of D, Twin Peaks—03/30/05. Peter Canavese. GrouchoReviews.
  15. News: Was David Duchovny's Family From Ukraine or Russia?. . July 30, 2014.
  16. Web site: David Duchovny Interview for "Phantom". facebook.com.
  17. Web site: Five Minutes With David Duchovny. Gothamist. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151514/http://gothamist.com/2013/02/27/david_duchovny.php. May 10, 2013.
  18. Web site: A Literary Classic of Coney Island Comes to Digital Life. thebrooklynink.com. August 21, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20141211110957/http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/08/20/47060-a-literary-classic-of-coney-island-comes-to-digital-life/. December 11, 2014. usurped.
  19. Web site: Get to know all about the family of X-Files star David Duchovny . fnwmb.s3.amazonaws.com.
  20. Web site: SIBLING REVELRY . adage.com.