Enrico Cocozza
Directing
Born 1921-11-06
Died 1997-12-27
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
33 credits
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Enrico Cocozza was a Scottish-Italian filmmaker whose imaginative and often surreal films earned considerable recognition on the amateur film circuit during the 1940s and 1950s. Working mainly in and around Wishaw, where his family owned the popular Belhaven Café, he produced films including Chick’s Day (1950), a prize-winner at the 1951 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, The Living Ghost (1957) and Glasgow’s Docklands (1959).
A combination of personal and health difficulties eventually drew Cocozza away from filmmaking. These included an eye injury, the onset of diabetes, his mother’s declining health and death, and the sale of the family café. He later spent much of his working life teaching at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, but was forced to retire when complications from diabetes caused his eyesight to deteriorate. Despite his earlier success, his films gradually fell into obscurity.
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Filmography
Directing
28 credits
Chick's Day
Cameo
The Demon Within
Masquerade
Capriccio
Twilight
Corky!
Crabbit Granny
Robot Three
Smart Boy Wanted
The Silver Trumpet
Glasgow’s Docklands
Fantasmagoria
Incubo
The Living Ghost
The Cat
The Mirror
Ferry Flirt
Bongo Erotico
Westx Intervus
The Bottle
Petrol
Bryan Welcomes Raffles
Before Time Came
Theme for Sunday
Meet the Stars
Sail to Inveraray
Alassio
Acting
6 credits
Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997
Robot Three
Fantasmagoria
Incubo
Fit O’ the Toon
Interval
Other credits
1 credit
Writing
1 credit
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