
Enrico Cocozza
Known for
Directing
Born
November 6, 1921
Birthplace
Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Died
December 27, 1997 (aged 76)
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 declining health and death, and the sale of the family café. He later spent much of his working life teaching...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
Smart Boy WantedDirector
2001
Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997as Self (Archive)
1982
The Demon WithinDirector
1978
Fit O’ the Toonas Self
1978
Westx IntervusDirector
1960
The Silver TrumpetDirector
1960
PorphyriaStory
1960
Meet the StarsDirector
1959
Bongo EroticoDirector
1959
The Living GhostDirector
1958
Before Time CameDirector
1958
The BottleDirector
1957
PetrolDirector
1956
Incuboas Café Worker, Director
1956
The CatDirector
1956
Theme for SundayDirector
1956
Sail to InverarayDirector
1956
Corky!Director
1956
Glasgow’s DocklandsDirector
1955
TwilightDirector
1954
CapriccioDirector
1954
AlassioDirector
1953
MasqueradeDirector
1953
Crabbit GrannyDirector
1952









