Joseph Strick to serve as a Regents' Lecturer

January 18, 1978

Academy Award winning director Joseph Strick, who has built successful careers in both the business and film world, will serve as a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego January 30 to February 3.

Strick, whose film "Interviews with My Lai Veterans" won an Oscar in 1971, will meet with students in seminars and will give three public lectures/film showings while on the campus. His stay is sponsored by Revelle College.

During his career, Strick has brought two classic works by novelist James Joyce to the screen. He was producer and director of "Ulysses" which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1968 and last year he produced and directed "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

The three lectures and film showings, all free and open to the public, will be held in the Mandeville Auditorium. At the first, scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, January 30, Strick will show and discuss "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." He will show and discuss his film "Ulysses" at 4 p.m. the next day, Tuesday, January 31.

In his final public presentation, scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday, February 2, Strick will show and discuss two other Joyce works adapted for film, "Dubliners" and "Finnegan's Wake."

For information contact: Paul Lowenberg, 452-3120

(January 18, 1978)

Joseph Strick Films - Director & producer

Muscle Beach 1949

The Savage Eye 1959 Awards at Venice, Mannheim and Edinburgh Festivals

The Balcony 1963 Academy Award Nomination

Ulysses 1967 Academy Award Nomination

The Hecklers 1967

Tropic of Cancer 1970

Interviews with My Lai Veterans 1971 Academy Award

Road Movie 1974

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1977 Films - Producer

The Boy and the Eagle

Ring of Bright Water

The Darwin Adventure

Stage Plays

Gallows Humor 1965 Dublin Theater Festival

Aristophanes 1966 Royal Shakespeare Co-Stratford upon Avon

Other Enterprises Founder and Board Chairman, Electrosolids Corp. 1956 to 1964 Vice President, Fruehauf Trailer Co. (Strick Division) to 1961 Founder and Board Chairman, ComDutron Corp. 1959 to 1964, Founder and Board Chairman, Physical Sciences Corp. 1959 to 1964 Founder and Director, Westdale Savings and Loan Assoc. 1960 to 1968 Founder and Director, Holosonics, Inc. 1968 to present Director, Investment Sciences Inc., 1970 to -present Director, Grove Press. Inc. 1967 to present Other film seminars: Yale University, Princeton University, Boston University, Australian National Film School, Pennsylvania State University, York University, University of Michigan and others.