Daniel Duchovny
{{Short description|American TV and film director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Duchovny
| birth_name = Daniel Miller Duchovny
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| other_names = Danny Ducovny
Daniel Ducovny
| yearsactive = 1980–present
| father = Amram Ducovny
| relatives = David Duchovny (brother)
West Duchovny (niece)
Téa Leoni (former-sister-in-law)
| occupation = Actor, director{{cite web |title=Working with superstar director @danny Duchovny looking good behind the rig |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ZW5xQBzfvh/ |website=instagram.com}}
}}
Daniel Miller Duchovny (known as Danny Ducovny; also credited as Daniel Ducovny) is an actor and a director of commercials.{{cite web |title=Looking stop by for a trim famous director @Danny Duchovny |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/qUj86Lzfhc/ |website=instagram.com}}
Early life
Duchovny was born in New York City in 1956.{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=August 9, 2013|issue=1271|page=22}} 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/arts/amram-ducovny-75-late-blossoming-novelist.html | work=The New York Times | title=Amram Ducovny, 75, Late-Blossoming Novelist | first=Don R. | last=Hecker|date=September 2, 2003|access-date=May 1, 2010}}Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio 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).{{cite web |title=Happy Birthday Meg Miller Duchovny! The double snowman—88! We love you! Danny David and Laurie |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLW113HL4S/ |website=instagram.com}} Duchovny's mother is a Scottish immigrant from Whitehills, Aberdeen, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAxE3-7IMGY#t=102s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206143039/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=DAxE3-7IMGY| archive-date=2011-02-06|title=Craig Ferguson 8/10/10C Late Late Show David Duchovny|publisher=YouTube |access-date=March 21, 2011}}... my father being a Russian Jew ....
{{cite web |url=http://duchovny.net/articles/radiotimes2.htm |title=My Kind of Day - David Duchovny |publisher=Radio Times |date=Dec 1995 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331232341/http://duchovny.net/articles/radiotimes2.htm |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |url-status=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.
His father was Jewish, and his mother was Lutheran.{{cite web|url=http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm|title=David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: A Man and His 'X'|publisher=Duchovny.net|date=October 26, 1997|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119064603/http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm|archive-date=January 19, 2013|url-status=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."
{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/david-duchovny-my-fantasy-was-to-be-nietzsche-731728.html|title=David Duchovny: 'My fantasy was to be Nietzsche'|work=The Independent|date=June 10, 2004|access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cite web|first=Vladimir|last=Kozlov|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-david-duchovny-stars-russian-721915|title=David Duchovny's Russian Beer Commercial Goes Viral (Video)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 29, 2014|access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Wild|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/x-files-undercover-19960516|title=X-Files Undercover|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 16, 1996|access-date=May 5, 2018}} His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.{{cite web|url=http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm|title=David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: Cult Times 1997|publisher=Duchovny.net|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124023415/http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm|archive-date=January 24, 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/84|title=Groucho Reviews: Interview: David Duchovny—House of D, Twin Peaks—03/30/05|author=Peter Canavese|work=GrouchoReviews}} 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).{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/was-david-duchovnys-famil_b_5635205.html | work=The Huffington Post | title=Was David Duchovny's Family From Ukraine or Russia?|date=July 30, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/rcr-media-group/david-duchovny-interview-for-phantom/357122877670319|title=David Duchovny Interview for "Phantom"|work=facebook.com}}{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2013/02/27/david_duchovny.php|title=Five Minutes With David Duchovny|work=Gothamist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151514/http://gothamist.com/2013/02/27/david_duchovny.php|archive-date=May 10, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/08/20/47060-a-literary-classic-of-coney-island-comes-to-digital-life/|title=A Literary Classic of Coney Island Comes to Digital Life|work=thebrooklynink.com|access-date=August 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211110957/http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/08/20/47060-a-literary-classic-of-coney-island-comes-to-digital-life/|archive-date=December 11, 2014|url-status=usurped}}
Career
In 1990, he founded his production company, Cucoloris, with partner Linda Stewart.{{cite web |title=Get to know all about the family of X-Files star David Duchovny |url=https://fnwmb.s3.amazonaws.com/2024-03-26/get-to-know-all-about-the-family-of-x-files-star-david-duchovny.html |website=fnwmb.s3.amazonaws.com}} Before moving into directing commercials and the occasional TV series episode, he had worked on several movies in the camera department.{{cite web |title=SIBLING REVELRY |url=https://adage.com/article/people-players/sibling-revelry/92562 |website=adage.com}}
Filmography
2024 - Schindler Space Architect co-cinematographer
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 - The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! — 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
References
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External links
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- [http://www.cucoloris.com/ Cucoloris], his production company
- Liz Saunderson: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821211444/http://www.boardsmag.com/articles/magazine/20000701/directorsducovny.html Defining Ducovny], Boards (July 1, 2000)
- [http://www.duchovny.net/articles4/davidanddanny.htm Relative Values: David Duchovny and Danny Ducovny], The Sunday Times (September 30, 2001)
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Category:Artists from New York City
Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Category:American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Category:American television directors