Biography

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. 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. Four years later, he landed a job as an assistant director; his first directing job was an episode of Ironside (1967). In the years since, he has directed television movies and episodes of many television series, counting his Hill Street Blues (1981) episodes as his favorites.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Son of Christian Nyby (full name: Christian I. Nyby Sr).

Wrote prologue for "Henry Fonda and The Deputy: The Film and Stage Star and His TV Western", Bear Manor Media.

He is one of the many directors profiled in "The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television," by Christopher Wicking, 1979.

Recipient, Silver & Gold Award, University of Idaho, April 2010.

Directed 12 episodes of Hill Street Blues (1981), which is more than any other director (Gregory Hoblit directed 11).

"A director is a storyteller. Using the words the writers provide, the director then takes those words and puts them into a specific location. And then how the actors interpret it, placement of the camera, the lighting, the movement of the characters, the movement of the camera, consistent themes throughout; it's really through the director's eyes that you see the story unfolding." (University of Idaho alumni magazine, winter, 2005)