John Dorr

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-09-22 (49 years old)

Deathday

1993-01-01

Place of Birth

Lancaster, Massachusetts

John Dorr

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 priest drama, a vampire romance, a two-screen revi...

Acting

1979

Sudzall Does It All!

as Buzzy Composition

1992

Season's Greetings

as John Dorr

1987

Do It Yourself Video for Poets

as Himself / John Dorr

1984

Blonde Death

as Park Security Man

1982

As the World Burns

as TV repairman

Production

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