Robert Markowitz

{{short description|American film director}}

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| birth_place = Irvington, New Jersey, U.S.

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| occupation = Film director, television director

| years_active = 1976–2006

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Robert Markowitz (born February 7, 1935, in Irvington, New Jersey) is an American film and television director. He directed episodes of Serpico (1976), Delvecchio (1976-1977), and Amazing Stories (1986), and a number of television films that include A Dangerous Life (1988), Too Young to Die? (1990), Decoration Day (1990), Because Mommy Works (1994), Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), The Great Gatsby (2000), The Big Heist (2001), The Pilot's Wife (2002), and Word of Honor (2003).{{cite web |url=http://www.tnt.tv/movies/movietitle/?oid=5118 |title=Robert Markowitz bio at TNT.com |publisher=TNT.com |access-date=March 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925151928/http://www.tnt.tv/movies/movietitle/?oid=5118 |archive-date=September 25, 2011 }}

His last directing credit was the TNT television film Avenger (2006), starring Sam Elliott and Timothy Hutton.