John Coles

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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Editor, Visual Effects & Animation, Below The Line

Career Milestones

Directed documentary about Amherst while in college aired on PBS

Directed first music video, Billy Joel's "Big Shot"

Directed industrial films for AT&T and Pepsi-Cola

Directed, shot and edited first short in 16mm while still in high school, "Casablanca"

Director for Wynn Handman Acting Studio, adjunct of American Place Theatre; director off-Broadway

TV debut with shorts for NBC's "Saturday Night Live"

Worked as assistant editor to Francis Ford Coppola

1984

Directed episodes of TV series, "Tales From the Dark Side"

1985

Directed first PBS fiction film, "Hellfire"

1990

Directed first feature, "Signs of Life"