Enrico Cocozza

Directing

06 Nov 1921

† 27 Dec 1997

Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

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 Cocoz...