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Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.
He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing.
As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York — a screenplay he started working on in 1976 — as well as Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days. Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron’s screenplay for Titanic.
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Jay Cocks Biography / Wiki
Name | Jay Cocks |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Writing |
Place of Birth | |
Date of Birth | 1944-01-12 |
Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
Deathday |
Jay Cocks Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Street Scenes 1970 | Self | 1970-09-14 | In the late spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major … |
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry | 2008-07-23 | Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films…. | |
An American Named Kazan | Self | 2019-03-10 | Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War … |
Martin Scorsese’s Journey Into Silence | Self | 2017-03-28 | A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”… |
Movies Are My Life: A Profile on Martin Scorsese | Self | 1978-10-06 | The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived by his colleagues, and himself, in 1977. Catching… |
Innocence and Experience: The Making of The Age of Innocence | Self | 1992-09-01 | A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocenc… |
The Craft of Dirty Harry | 2008-06-03 | A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series…. | |
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil | 2007-01-01 | Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the theme that dominated his creative life for four deca… | |
Martin Scorsese Directs | Self | 1990-06-16 | Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S… |
The Business End: Violence in Cinema | 2008-06-03 | An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience…. | |
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry | Self | 2008-07-23 | An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, ‘Hal Holbrook’, John Milius, ‘Shane Black’ and … |
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Strange Days | Screenplay | 1995-10-13 | In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the … |
The Age of Innocence | Screenplay | 1993-09-10 | Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the w… |
Gangs of New York | Screenplay | 2002-12-14 | It’s 1863. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murd… |
De-Lovely | Author | 2004-07-02 | From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. … |
Silence | Screenplay | 2016-12-22 | Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact…. |
Made in Milan | Writer | 1990-01-01 | A short documentary film about fashion designer Giorgio Armani; it shows him preparing for a show and discusses his ideas about fashion, his family hi… |
Going Electric | Writer | An autobiographical film about musical icon Bob Dylan’s rise in fame…. | |
Gangs of New York | Story | 2002-12-14 | It’s 1863. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murd… |
The Last Temptation of Christ | Screenplay | 1988-05-28 | Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -… |
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