Personal Info
John Dorr
Directing
Biography
John Dorr (1944-1993), born in Massachusetts, first studied at Yale University (1962-1966), where he programmed the Film Society, created the Film Bulletin and completed a thesis on D.W. Griffith's last pictures. After moving to Los Angeles to study at UCLA (1966-1969), he shot his first shorts in 8mm and worked as a film critic for « Take One », « On Film », « Millimeter » or « The Hollywood Reporter », where he proved himself ruthless towards New Hollywood movies, hoping for another type of American cinema.
The 1970s were spent writing around a dozen screenplays (from 1971 to 1978 : a gay …
Filmography
Movies
Season's Greetings
as John Dorr
Do It Yourself Video for Poets
as Himself / John Dorr
Blonde Death
as Park Security Man
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
as Benchley
As the World Burns
as TV repairman
The Case of the Missing Consciousness
as Nick Malace
Sudzall Does It All!
as Buzzy Composition