Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 06, 1921
Died
Dec 27, 1997
Place of Birth
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Credits
33 titles
Enrico Cocozza
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997
Self (Archive)
The Demon Within
Director
Fit O’ the Toon
Self
Westx Intervus
Director
The Silver Trumpet
Director
Meet the Stars
Director
Porphyria
Story
Bongo Erotico
The Living Ghost
Director
Before Time Came
Director
The Bottle
Director
Petrol
Director
The Cat
Director
Sail to Inveraray
Director
Incubo
Café Worker
Glasgow’s Docklands
Director
Theme for Sunday
Director
Corky!
Director
Twilight
Director
Alassio
Director
Capriccio
Director
Crabbit Granny
Director
Masquerade
Director
Cameo
Director
Ad Infernum Buddy?
Robot Three
Scientist
The Mirror
Director
Chick's Day
Director
Ferry Flirt
Director
Fantasmagoria
The Evil One
Interval
Poet
Bryan Welcomes Raffles
Director
Smart Boy Wanted
Director