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Enrico Cocozza
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
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. W…
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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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2001
Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997
Movie Self (Archive)
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1982
The Demon Within
Movie Director
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1978
Fit O’ the Toon
Movie Self
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1978
Westx Intervus
Movie Director
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1960
The Silver Trumpet
Movie Director
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1960
Meet the Stars
Movie Director
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1960
Porphyria
Movie Story
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1959
Bongo Erotico
Movie
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1959
The Living Ghost
Movie Director
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1958
Before Time Came
Movie Director
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1958
The Bottle
Movie Director
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1957
Petrol
Movie Director
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1956
The Cat
Movie Director
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1956
Sail to Inveraray
Movie Director
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1956
Incubo
Movie Café Worker
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1956
Glasgow’s Docklands
Movie Director
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1956
Theme for Sunday
Movie Director
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1956
Corky!
Movie Director
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1955
Twilight
Movie Director
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1954
Capriccio
Movie Director
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1954
Alassio
Movie Director
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1953
Crabbit Granny
Movie Director
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1953
Masquerade
Movie Director
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1952
Cameo
Movie Director
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1952
Ad Infernum Buddy?
Movie
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1951
Robot Three
Movie Scientist
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1951
The Mirror
Movie Director
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1950
Chick's Day
Movie Director
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1949
Ferry Flirt
Movie Director
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1948
Fantasmagoria
Movie The Evil One
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1943
Interval
Movie Poet
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1943
Bryan Welcomes Raffles
Movie Director
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Smart Boy Wanted
Movie Director
