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Revision as of 11:35, 1 September 2009
John D. Hancock (born 12 February 1939, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American director and writer.
In 1970, his Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet was nominated for the Short-Subject Live-Action Oscar.[1]
As a feature film director, he is best known for the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro. His other film-directing credits in the 1970s were California Dreaming, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, and Baby Blue Marine.[2] He was divorced from Ann Arensberg in 1974, and married actress Dorothy Tristan in December 1975.
He was the original director of Jaws 2, with his wife invited to work on rewrites of the screenplay. Hancock began to feel the pressure of directing his first epic adventure film "with only three film credits, and all small-scale dramas".[3] The producers were unhappy with his material, and, in June 1977, after a meeting with the producers and Universal executives, the director was fired. He and his wife were unexpectedly whisked away to Rome and production was shut down for a few weeks. They had been involved in the film for eighteen months.[4] The role was taken over by Jeannot Szwarc.
In the 1980s, he directed on television, and in films such as the Nick Nolte prison story Weeds and the holiday family movie Prancer.[2]
He is also a theater director and writer for screen and stage.
References
- ^ "Awards for John D. Hancock" at IMDb
- ^ a b Meet the Director, Writer and Producers!
- ^ Loynd, Ray (1978). The Jaws 2 Log. London: W.H. Allen. p. 66. ISBN 0-426-18868-3.
- ^ Loynd, p 70