Jay Cocks
Screenwriter, Film writer
1944 –
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Who is Jay Cocks?
Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.
He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing.
As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York — a screenplay he started working on in 1976 — as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic.
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- Born
- Jan 12, 1944
United States of America - Also known as
- John C. Cocks Jr.
- John C. Cocks, Jr.
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Kenyon College
- Employment
- Rolling Stone LLC
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on July 23, 2013
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