Enrico Cocozza
British film director
Intro | British film director | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
was | Film director | |
Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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Birth | 13 October 1921 | |
Death | 23 March 2009 (aged 87 years) | |
Star sign | Libra |
Enrico Cocozza (6 November 1921 – 27 December 1997), was a Scottish filmmaker who won many film awards during the 1940s and 1950s. His often surreal films were mainly filmed in and around the town of Wishaw in Scotland, where his family owned the popular Belhaven Cafe. These include Chick's Day (1950), a prize winner at the 1951 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, The Living Ghost (1957), and Glasgow's Docklands (1959). Illness later forced him to give up making films and he spent most of his working life teaching at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 2001 he was the subject of the Channel 4 documentary Artery: the Story of Enrico Cocozza.