Ivan Nagy

Iván Nagy (January 23, 1938 – March 23, 2015) was a Hungarian-American film and television director and photographer.

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.

Nagy then transitioned to largely directing television series, including CHiPs, Starsky & Hutch, and The Hitchhiker, with the exception of the 1993 slasher film Skinner''.

Following his 1993 arrest, his career hit a slump, and he spent the rest of his career making pornographic films, before retiring in 2001. and was the former boyfriend of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. Nagy had introduced Fleiss to Madam Alex in 1987.

Death Nagy died in 2015 in Los Angeles, aged 77.