Hochberg, Victoria 1952–

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HOCHBERG, Victoria 1952


PERSONAL


Full name, Victoria Greene Hochberg; born December 24, 1952; daughter of Jacob and Lillian (maiden name, Greene) Hochberg. Education: Antioch College, B.A.; attended American Film Institute, 1975.


Addresses: Agent Writers & Artists Agency, 8383 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Office Raleigh Studios, 650 N. Bronson Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900041404.


Career: Director, writer, and technical advisor. Directing Workshop for Women, American Film Institute, writer, 198283.


Member: Directors Guild of America (organizer of women's committee, Los Angeles, CA, 198084).


Awards, Honors: R. W. Altschuler Award, 1975; American Women in Radio and TV Award, 1984; California Governor's Award, 1984; Lillian Gish WomeninFilm Award, 1988, 1990; Emmy Award NATAS, 1988, 1990; Directors Guild of America Award (with others), outstanding directorial achievement in dramatic showsdaytime, 1988, for Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story; Directors Guild of America Award (with others), outstanding directorial achievement in dramatic showsdaytime, 1990, for Jacob Have I Loved; Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement in children's programs, 1999, for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement in comedy series, 2000, for Sex and the City.


CREDITS

Film Work:

Director, Metroliner, 1975.

Technical advisor, Moment by Moment, 1978.

Director, Tell Them I'm a Mermaid, 1984.

Director, Bad Boy (also known as Dawg ), Dawg LLC, 2002.

Television Director; Series:

State of Grace, Fox Family, 20012002.

Television Director; Specials:

Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story (also known as Just a Regular Kid ), ABC, 1987.

Jacob Have I Loved, PBS, 1989.

Sweet 15, PBS, 1990.

Television Director; Pilots:

Loralei Lee, CBS, 1994.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Jake vs. Jake," Melrose Place, Fox, 1992.

"Bye Bye Billy," Melrose Place, Fox, 1993.

"Duet for One," Melrose Place, Fox, 1993.

"The Visitor," Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, CBS, 1993.

"Grand Delusions," Melrose Place, Fox, 1994.

"Just Say No," Melrose Place, Fox, 1994.

"Nothing Is as It Seems," Models, Inc., 1994.

"Grayson, Inc.," Models, Inc., 1995.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dinner at Eight," Melrose Place, Fox, 1995.

"All about Brooke," Melrose Place, Fox, 1995.

"Blind Ambition," Melrose Place, Fox, 1995.

"When I Deceive You ... ," Central Park West, CBS, 1995.

"The Story of Gil and Rachel," Central Park West, CBS, 1995.

"True Fibs," Melrose Place, Fox, 1996.

"The Promise," Ally McBeal, Fox, 1997.

"From Honey, with Love," Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, syndicated, 1998.

"Honey, You'll Always Be a Princess to Me," Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, syndicated, 1999.

"The Promise," Ally, Fox, 1999.

"the chicken dance," Sex and the City, HBO, 1999.

"the man, the myth, the viagra," Sex and the City, HBO, 1999.

"French Connection," M.Y.O.B., NBC, 2000.

"T&A," The Chris Isaak Show, Showtime, 2001.

"You Make Me Sick," Tucker, NBC, 2001.

Also directed episodes of The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, CBS; Touched by an Angel, CBS; Cold Feet, NBC; Doogie Howser, M.D., ABC.

WRITINGS

Television Movies:

I Married a Centerfold, NBC, 1984.

Television Specials:

Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story (also known as Just a Regular Kid ), ABC, 1987.

Jacob Have I Loved, PBS, 1989.