Eugene Corr
Eugene Corr (born February 24, 1947 in Contra Costa County , California ) is an American film director and screenwriter .
Life
In his youth, from 17 to 26, Eugene Corr worked as a factory worker in the auto, steel and food industries. He came to filmmaking in the 1970s as part of the radical film group Cine Manifest in San Francisco . In 1977 his film Over-Under Sideways-Down was released , which was long considered lost.
In the 1980s he worked mostly for television and directed episodes for television series such as Miami Vice and Crime Story . In 1990, he turned with Robert Hillmann documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey , which at the Academy Awards 1991 as Best Documentary nomination.
In 1994 he wrote the screenplay for the television film Shackles of the Past , followed in 1997 by Steve Prefontaine: The Long Distance Runner and in 2001 Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story .
Filmography
Director
- 1977: Over-Under Sideways-Down
- 1986: Desert Bloom
- 1987–1988: Crime Story (TV series, two episodes)
- 1989: Miami Vice (TV series, one episode)
- 1990: Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (with Robert Hillmann)
- 1990: Against the Law (TV series, episode)
- 1997: Nothing Sacred (TV series, episode)
- 2015: Ghost Town to Havana
script
- 1977: Over-Under Sideways-Down
- 1983: When the Wolves Howl (Never Cry Wolf)
- 1984: wild rose
- 1986: Desert Bloom
- 1990: Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
- 1994: The Shackles of the Past (Getting Out)
- 1997: Steve Prefontaine: The Long Distance Runner (Prefontaine)
- 2001: Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story
- 2008: Butte, America: The Saga of a Hard Rock Mining Town
- 2015: Ghost Town to Havana
Web links
- Eugene Corr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cine Manifesto by Eugene Corr and Peter Gessner. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ The 63rd Academy Awards | 1991. In: Oscars.org. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Corr, Eugene |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Contra Costa County , California , United States |