Enrico Cocozza

British film director
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish film director
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasFilm director
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth13 October 1921
Death23 March 2009 (aged 87 years)
Star signLibra
The details

Biography

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.

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