Joseph Strick

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Joseph Strick (b. July 6, 1923 in Braddock, Pennsylvania) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. He learned film making when serving as a cameraman in the US Air Force in World War II. In 1948, he and Irving Lerner produced Muscle Beach. For several years in the 1950s, Lerner, Strick, Ben Maddow, and Sidney Meyers worked part-time on the experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959); [1] Strick was also a successful businessman. The Savage Eye won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award.

In 1970, He won an Academy award for best documentary for his movie Interviews with My Lai Veterans. His famous ventures include a film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses and the movie Never Cry Wolf (1983).

[edit] References and external links

  1. ^ Jackson, Benjamin T. (1960). "The Savage Eye," Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4. (Summer, 1960), pp. 53-57.
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