Director
Joseph Strick
13 films
Joseph Ezekiel Strick (July 6, 1923 – June 1, 2010) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned experimental documentary, literary adaptation, and narrative feature filmmaking. Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Strick served as a cameraman in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II before beginning his filmmaking career with the short Muscle Beach (1948), co-directed with Irving Lerner. He later collaborated with Lerner, Ben Maddow, and Sidney Meyers on the experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Strick went on to direct film adaptations of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1967) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), as well as Tropic of Cancer and Never Cry Wolf (1983). His documentary short Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. In addition to his filmmaking work, Strick was active as an entrepreneur in technology ventures and worked in theatre in Britain, directing for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His moving image collection, comprising more than one hundred items, is held by the Academy Film Archive, which has preserved several of his films. He died in Paris, France, in 2010.
Best known for
Filmography 13
Never Cry Wolf
1983 · Producer
On Plex
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977 · Producer, Director
Road Movie
1974 · Director
The Darwin Adventure
1972 · Producer
Interviews with My Lai Veterans
1971 · Director, Writer
Tropic of Cancer
1970 · Director, Screenplay
Ring of Bright Water
1969 · Producer
Ulysses
1967 · Director, Producer
The Hecklers
1967 · Director
The Balcony
1963 · Director, Producer
On Tubi TV
The Savage Eye
1960 · Writer, Director
On Philo
The Big Break
1953 · Director, Producer
Muscle Beach
1948 · Director