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Joseph Ezekiel Strick (July 6, 1923 – June 1, 2010) was an American director, producer and screenwriter.

Life and career

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Born in the Pittsburgh area town of Braddock, Pennsylvania,[1] Strick briefly attended UCLA, then enrolled in the U.S. Army during World War II. In the Army, he served as a cameraman in the Army Air Forces.[2]

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).[3]

Strick was also a successful businessman, founding Electrosolids Corp (1956), Computron Corp. (1958), Physical Sciences Corp (1958), and Holosonics Corp. (1960). In 1977 he invented the usage of six-axis motion simulators as entertainment systems and applied it to new machines used now in Disney theme parks as "Star Tours."[4]

In the 1960s, during his first marriage, Strick commissioned what was the only house designed by Oscar Niemeyer in North America. The marriage ended in divorce before construction was completed, and Strick never occupied the house, located on the edge of Santa Monica Canyon.[2]

The Savage Eye won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award and was hailed as part of an "American New Wave" alongside the work of Shirley Clarke and John Cassavetes.[5] In 1970, he won an Academy Award for Best Documentary for his movie Interviews with My Lai Veterans. His better known ventures include a film adaptationofJames Joyce's Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as Never Cry Wolf (1983). He also directed Tropic of Cancer, based on the novel by Henry Miller.

In Britain, he directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company (1964) and the National Theatre (2003).

Joseph Strick's career led him to share his time in Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris. He died in a Paris hospital of congestive heart failure.[2]

The moving image collection of Joseph Strick is held at the Academy Film Archive. The collection consists of over one hundred items, including negative and print materials.[6] The Academy Film Archive has preserved several of Strick's films, including The Savage Eye and Muscle Beach.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Uricchio, Marylynn (April 30, 1984). "Film-maker abhors his industry's 'illiteracy'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – via Google.com.
  • ^ a b c Dennis McLellan "Joseph Strick dies at 86; independent filmmaker brought 'Ulysses' to big screen", Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2010
  • ^ Benjamin T Jackson "The Savage Eye", Film Quarterly, 13:4, Summer 1960, pp. 53-57
  • ^ Obituary:Joseph Strick, Daily Telegraph, 8 June 2010
  • ^ Sight & Sound, URL accessed 25 November 2009
  • ^ "Joseph Strick Collection". Academy Film Archive. 5 September 2014.
  • ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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