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and the Bear, CHiPs, The A-Team (5 episodes total, 2 in Season One and 3 in Season Two), The Fall Guy, Hill Street Blues, Diagnosis: Murder, and Walker, Texas Ranger. He stayed at Idaho for two years as a member of the swim team and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity before transferring to USC.

In 1963, the Air Force sent Nyby to Vietnam as a photographer. Nyby also directed numerous Perry Mason television movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the years since, he has directed television movies and episodes of many television series, counting his Capitaine Furillo (1981) episodes as his favorites.

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Nyby II

For his father, a television and film director, see Christian Nyby.

Christian I. Nyby II (born June 1, 1941) is an Americantelevision director.

Nyby graduated from Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, California in 1959. He directed the Tales of the Gold Monkey episode "Trunk From the Past", and the pilot episode of the unsold 1988 Remo Williams series.

Nyby’s father, Christian Nyby, also a television director (as well as a film editor and director) directed multiple episodes of the original Perry Mason series.

Nyby considers his Hill Street Blues episodes as his favorites.

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Nyby went on to have a prolific television and movie directing career, from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Nyby was sent to Vietnam as a photographer for the United States Air Force in 1963.

In 1967, Nyby became an assistant director for Ironside, and by 1972 received his first directing credits for Ironside episode “Find a Victim”, and Adam-12 episode “The Tip”. He directed episodes of almost every major television show of the period, from John Payne's The Restless Gun, Perry Mason, Emergency!, The Twilight Zone, to Kojak.

He died at age 80 in Temecula, California.

Nyby is the father of Christian I.

Nyby II, a prolific television director in his own right.

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The day after Nyby graduated from Van Nuys High School in California in 1959, he drove to north central Idaho, following a friend to the University of Idaho for college.

christian nyby ii biography

During this period, he worked on four films for famous director Howard Hawks, of which one (Red River) led to an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, he landed a job as an assistant director; his first directing job was an episode of L'homme de fer (1967). He attended the University of Idaho for two years before transferring to the University of Southern California.

Nyby went on to direct multiple episodes of Emergency!, Battlestar Galactica, B.J.

Christian Nyby

For his son, a television director, see Christian I. Nyby II.

Christian Nyby (September 1, 1913–September 17, 1993) was an American television and film director.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s.

He began his career in the carpentry division at the studios, worked his way up to editor, then received his first directing credit on Howard Hawks' 1951 production of The Thing from Another World (or The Thing as it is more commonly known), an instant success.