Joseph Strick is an American director, producer and screenwriter. He learned film making when serving as a cameraman in the US Air Force in World War II. In 1948, he and Irving Lerner produced Muscle Beach. For several years in the 1950s, Lerner, Strick, Ben Maddow, and Sidney Meyers worked part-time on the experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959); Strick was also a successful businessman, founding Electrosolids Corp (1956) Computron Corp.
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- Joseph Strick is an American director, producer and screenwriter. He learned film making when serving as a cameraman in the US Air Force in World War II. In 1948, he and Irving Lerner produced Muscle Beach. For several years in the 1950s, Lerner, Strick, Ben Maddow, and Sidney Meyers worked part-time on the experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959); Strick was also a successful businessman, founding Electrosolids Corp (1956) Computron Corp. (1958) Physical Sciences Corp (1958) Holosonics Corp. (1960) In 1977 he invented the usage of six-axis motion simulators as entertainment systems and applied it to new machines used now in Disney theme parks as "Star Tours". The Savage Eye won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. In 1970, He won an Academy award for best documentary for his movie Interviews with My Lai Veterans. His famous ventures include a film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses and the movie Never Cry Wolf (1983). In Britain he has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company (1964) and the National Theatre (2003).
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