Enrico Cocozza (6 November 1921 – 27 December 1997), was a

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who won many film awards during the 1940s and 1950s. His often surreal films were mainly filmed in and around the town of

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, where his family owned the popular Belhaven Cafe. These include ''Chick's Day'' (1950), a prize winner at the 1951 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, ''The Living Ghost'' (1957), and ''Glasgow's Docklands'' (1959). Illness later forced him to give up making films and he spent most of his working life teaching at the

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. In 2001 he was the subject of the

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documentary ''Artery: the Story of Enrico Cocozza''.

References

External links

National Library of Scotland: Scottish Screen Archive
(Biography of Enrico Cocozza with links to film details and clips) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cocozza, Enrico 1921 births Scottish film directors 1997 deaths