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Jay Cocks (b. 1944)

Born:
January 12, 1944

Biography from TheMovieDB

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.    Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) 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.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Cocks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1988  The Last Temptation of Christ

Screenplay:
1988  The Last Temptation of Christ
1993  The Age of Innocence
1995  Strange Days
2002  Gangs of New York
2016  Silence
2024  A Complete Unknown

Story:
1988  The Last Temptation of Christ
1993  The Age of Innocence
1995  Strange Days
2002  Gangs of New York
2016  Silence
2024  A Complete Unknown

Writer:
1988  The Last Temptation of Christ
1990  Made in Milan
1993  The Age of Innocence
1995  Strange Days
2002  Gangs of New York
2004  De-Lovely
2016  Silence
2024  A Complete Unknown

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