Directing
Enrico Cocozza
- Born
- Nov 6, 1921 · Aged 76
- Died
- Dec 27, 1997
- Place of birth
- Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 8
- TV credits
- 0
- Directing credits
- 28
Also known as (1)
- 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…
