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'{{Short description|American writer}} {{Infobox person | name = George DiCaprio | image = | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by the blind and visually impaired's speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = George Paul DiCaprio | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|11|30}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Writer, editor, publisher, distributor | years_active = | spouse = Irmelin Indenbirken <br>(m. 1964; div. 1975)<br>{{marriage|Peggy Ann Farrar <br>|1995}} | children = [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] }} '''George Paul DiCaprio''' (born November 30, 1943)<ref name=Lambiek>[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dicaprio_george.htm George DiCaprio profile], Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved May 23, 2021.</ref> is an American writer, editor, publisher, distributor, and former [[Performance art|performance artist]], known for his work in the realm of [[underground comix]]. He has collaborated with [[Timothy Leary]] and [[Laurie Anderson]]. He is the father of the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning actor [[Leonardo DiCaprio]]. == Biography == DiCaprio was born to George Leon DiCaprio (1902–1965) and Olga Anne Jacobs (1904–1984). His father was the son of Italian immigrants, Salvatore Di Caprio (1866-1966) and Rosina Cassella (1875-1941), and his mother was of German descent.<ref>{{cite news |date=2013-05-22 |title=Leonardo DiCaprio's family tree surprise: ancestry like Great Gatsby |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/leonardo-dicaprios-family-tree-surprise-ancestry-like-great-gatsby/story-fni0cvc9-1226648634334?nk=ca6a411cb9633b6421cb743ba197997d |access-date=2015-01-18}}</ref><ref name="DiCaprio1">{{cite book |last=Catalano |first=Grace |date=February 1997 |title=Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo |publisher=Dell Publishing Group |location=New York, New York |isbn=0-440-22701-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/leonardodicaprio00cata/page/7 7–15] |url=https://archive.org/details/leonardodicaprio00cata/page/7 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ancestry 1706 (Pedigree Pages) |publisher=Hodank Family History Archives |url=http://family.hodank.com/celebrity/p_6a9.html#3544 |access-date=2014-01-08}}</ref> DiCaprio was active in underground comix throughout the 1970s, as a writer, editor, publisher, and distributor.<ref name=Agard>Agard, Chancellor. [http://people.com/movies/five-things-to-know-about-leonardo-dicaprios-dad-george/ "Five Things You Need to Know About Leonardo DiCaprio's Dad George,"] ''People'' magazine website (Feb. 8, 2016).</ref> He is known for such titles as ''Greaser Comics'', ''Forbidden Knowledge'', and ''Cocaine Comix'', collaborating with artists such as [[Laurie Anderson]], Pete von Sholly, and Rich Chidlaw. (His own self-publishing imprint was known as '''Half-Ass Press'''.)<ref>[https://www.comics.org/publisher/7181/ Publisher: George DiCaprio], Grand Comics Database. Retrieved May 22, 2021.</ref> As a distributor in the 1970s and 1980s, he supplied West Coast retailers with underground and independent comics.<ref>Ferrer, Adam. [https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/leonardo-dicaprios-dad-had-a-weird-job-that-prepared-his-son-for-success.html "Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dad Had a Weird Job That Prepared His Son for Success,"] ''Showbiz CheatSheet'' (February 25, 2020).</ref> He was also a [[Performance art|performance artist]]. Comics writer [[Harvey Pekar]] details a DiCaprio performance in Los Angeles in February 1988 where DiCaprio claimed that he did, "a light show using brine shrimp and worms. I'd hit 'em with cold water and they'd move around and I'd project 'em on a wall magnified. It blew people's minds."<ref>Pekar, Harvey and Paul Mavrides (illustrator), "The L.A. Performance Scene (as Described by George DiCaprio)," ''American Splendor'' #14 (1989).</ref> DiCaprio played an important role in his son's early career as an actor. He used to screen scripts for him, and was instrumental in getting Leo to portray [[Arthur Rimbaud]] in the 1995 film ''[[Total Eclipse (film)|Total Eclipse]]''.<ref name=Agard /> == Personal life == George Paul DiCaprio met Irmelin Indenbirken (born 1945), a German immigrant, in college<!-- where? -->; the two later married and moved to [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="DiCaprio1" /> The couple had one son, [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], and divorced shortly after, when the boy was a year old. While Leonardo lived mostly with his mother, his parents agreed to live next door to each other so as not to deprive him of his father's presence in his life.<ref>{{cite news |last=Green |first=Jesse |date=February 12, 1995 |title=Fresh Blood; Leonardo DiCaprio |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/magazine/fresh-blood-leonardo-dicaprio.html |access-date=June 14, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809231748/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/magazine/fresh-blood-leonardo-dicaprio.html |archive-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref><ref name=Agard /> ==Bibliography== *''Baloney Moccasins'' (Half-Ass Press, 1970) – features artwork by [[Laurie Anderson]] * ''[[Greaser (subculture)|Greaser]] Comics'' #1 (Half-Ass Press, 1971) – stories illustrated by Richard Jaccoma *''Greaser Comics'' #2 ([[Rip Off Press]], July 1972) – stories illustrated by Jim Janes * ''Forbidden Knowledge'' #1–2 ([[Last Gasp (publisher)|Last Gasp]], 1975, 1978) – edited by DiCaprio & Pete von Sholly, with contributions from [[Robert Williams (artist)|Robert Williams]], Rich Chidlaw, Matt Golden, [[Brent Boates]], Art Vitello, Milt Gray, Jean Paul Laurens, Jim Himes, Icelandic Codpiece Comics Studio, Dennis Ellis, Chris Lane, Warren Greenwood, Doug Hansen, Pete Von X (a.k.a. Pete von Sholly), and Johnny Edgar *''[[Arcade (comics magazine)|Arcade: The Comics Revue]]'' #5 ([[Print Mint]], Spring 1976) – "Anthony and the Temptations," illustrated by [[Justin Green (cartoonist)|Justin Green]] *''Cocaine Comix'' #1-4 (Last Gasp, 1976–1982) – co-edited with Rich Chidlaw; multiple stories written by DiCaprio and illustrated by Chidlaw *''Neurocomics'' (Last Gasp, 1979) – with [[Timothy Leary]], Tim Kummero, and Pete von Sholly * ''Yama Yama/The Ugly Head''<ref name=Agard /> (self-published, 1981) – [[flip book]] made in response to [[Gary Panter]] and burgeoning punk art scene; [[Robert Williams (artist)|Robert Williams]] illustrated "Yama Yama" while [[S. Clay Wilson]] illustrated "The Ugly Head"<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/806583/ ''Yama Yama / The Ugly Head'' entry], Grand Comics Database. Accessed Oct. 11, 2016.</ref> *''Hoo-Bee-Boo'' #1 (1982) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{IMDb name|1096247}} {{Leonardo DiCaprio}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dicaprio, George}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:American cartoonists]] [[Category:American male writers]] [[Category:American people of German descent]] [[Category:American performance artists]] [[Category:American writers of Italian descent]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Underground cartoonists]] [[Category:20th-century American artists]]'