Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick ( born July 6, 1923 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, † June 1, 2010 in Paris, France) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Life
Knitting studied briefly at UCLA before he went during the Second World War to the United States Army Air Forces, the Air Force of the U.S. Army. There he worked as a cameraman and later learned his craft. 1948 turned and he produced, together with the director and producer Irving Lerner, his first film Muscle Beach, a documentary about bodybuilders in Southern California.
From the mid- 1950s Knitting is operated first as a businessman. He founded several research and technology company, which he then sold for profit. This gave him the financial basis, will be needed to produce their own independent films. He founded, among others, the company Electro Solids Corp. (1956 ), Computron Corp.. (1958), Physical Sciences Corp. (1958) and Holosonics Corp.. ( 1960). In 1977, he developed a six-axis motion simulator for the entertainment industry, but did not get beyond the construction of a prototype. Later he used the basic principle of the construction, however, during his tenure as a technical consultant for the " Star Tours " attraction of Walt Disney theme parks.
From the mid- 1950s he worked with Irving Lerner, the documentary filmmaker Ben Maddow and Sidney Meyers director for four years on the documentary The Savage Eye ( 1959/1960 ). The film contained numerous documentary material from Los Angeles and drew the portrait of a young, divorced woman on her way to start a new life. The film won the Robert J. Flaherty Award at the British Film Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 1963 he made with Shelley Winters in the lead role of the film The balcony on the eponymous play by Jean Genet. In 1966 the TV documentary The hecklers on hecklers at campaign events before the English Parliament elections in 1966 in the UK.
In the 1960s, knitting also worked as a theater director. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1964, he directed An Evening with Aristophanes in Stratford- upon- Avon in Warwickshire. In 1965, he staged Gallow 's humor in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. In 2003 he returned again to the theater back he staged Renaissance Farces at the National Theatre.
Special gained fame in 1967 with his knitting, twisted on location low-budget film Ulysses, one part film adaptation of the previously applicable as unfilmable novel Ulysses by James Joyce. Knitting was there working as a director, producer and, together with Fred Haines, also known as a screenwriter. The film was shown in 1967 at the International Film Festival in Cannes, but in a partially censored version. In particular, parts of the French subtitles were removed, after knitting withdrew the film from the festival. As a screenwriter, he received Ulysses in 1968, together with Haines also an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1969 he turned co-directed with George Cukor the moral drama Justine with Anouk Aimée and Dirk Bogarde, but was not mentioned in the credits. 1970 he directed Tropic of Cancer, a literary adaptation of the novel Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. 1971 turned and he produced the documentary Interviews with My Lai Veterans, the American soldiers presented who had been involved in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. For this rope was awarded in 1971 at the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles with the Academy Award for Best Documentary ( Short ). Followed in 1977 again a literary adaptation: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on the novel by James Joyce. In 1983, he co- producer on the film Never Cry Wolf.
Knitting has been married twice. His marriage to his first wife, Anne failed in the 1960s. In his second marriage he was married to Maxine knitting. Knitting was the father of five children ( three sons, two daughters ). Since the early 1970s he lived permanently in Paris. He died on 1 June 2010 in a Paris hospital from heart failure.