Joseph Feury

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Joseph Feury , actually Joseph "Joey" Fioretti , (born June 5, 1939 in Wilmington (New York) , United States ) is an American stage dancer , film producer , documentary filmmaker , painter and actor . In 1987 he won an Oscar .

Live and act

Joseph “Joey” Fioretti grew up in “Little Italy” of Wilmington, survived polio at the age of 16 and, like his father, would become a plumber after graduating from high school (1957) . Instead, Fioretti preferred to take up ballet training and realized that his world is theater. He auditioned for My Fair Lady and went on tour with the piece Ninotschka in the early 1960s. It was there that Fioretti met the actress and future Academy Award winner Lee Grant , whom he married in 1962. At that time he was earning his living with an advertising agency.

Fioretti, who wanted to sound less Italian for image reasons and now called himself Feury, began to be artistically active in many ways. Although dyslexic , he wrote several screenplays, began painting for the first time in 1966 and started producing low-budget B-films in the early 1970s . Since the 1980s he has been the house producer of his wife Lee Grant's feature film productions. Publish in 1986 and directed by Grant documentary about unemployment and homelessness in the United States under President Ronald Reagan , Down and Out in America , Feury was together with his co-producer Milton Justice the following year an Academy Award for Best Documentary in reception take . He ended his film career again in the mid-2000s with a socially committed documentary film project: his production Baghdad ER took a look at the work of American military surgeons in the war zone of Iraq .

In 2012 Joseph Feury began painting professionally and also worked as a draftsman . His works were u. a. exhibited in a gallery in Manhattan . Grant colleagues such as Alan Alda , Joy Behar and Michael Douglas , a close friend of Feury's for decades, are in possession of paintings by the late-calling artist, who always signs his works with “Joey Fioretti”. He immortalized his oeuvre in a book entitled "Artworks of Joseph Fioretti".

Filmography

As a producer of television and cinema films , unless otherwise stated

  • 1969: Peyton Place (TV series, actor only)
  • 1970: The Pleasure Game
  • 1971: The Jesus Trip
  • 1976: The Stranger (short film)
  • 1983, 1989, 1992: America Undercover (documentary series)
  • 1984: A Matter of Sex (also script participation)
  • 1986: Nobody's Child
  • 1986: Down and Out in America (documentary)
  • 1989: Boys (Staying Together)
  • 1989: Burning Destiny (No Place Like Home)
  • 1994: Seasons of the Hart
  • 1995: Last Summer in the Hamptons (as an actor)
  • 1997: Say It, Fight It, Cure It
  • 1993-2004: Intimate Portrait (TV documentary series)
  • 2005: Going Shopping (as an actor)
  • 2005:… A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (documentary)
  • 2006: Baghdad ER (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the entry on mylife.com
personal data
SURNAME Feury, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fioretti, Joseph (maiden name); Feury, Joey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American stage actor, documentary filmmaker, and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilmington (New York) , United States