Iván Nagy (January 23, 1938 – March 23, 2015) was a Hungarian-American film and television director and photographer.
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Early life and education
Nagy was born in 1938 to Jewish parents in Budapest. He emigrated to the United States after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Prior to his filmmaking career, Nagy was an accomplished still photographer. He won a "Best Album Cover" Grammy Award for B. B. King's 1970 album Indianola Mississippi Seeds. He made his directorial debut with 1973's Bad Charleston Charlie, a low-budget crime comedy based on the life of bootlegger Charles Birger. In 1975, he directed Deadly Hero, a thriller about a corrupt police officer, starring Don Murray, James Earl Jones and Treat Williams (in his film debut).
Nagy then transitioned to largely directing television series, including CHiPs, Starsky & Hutch, and The Hitchhiker, with the exception of the 1993 slasher film Skinner.