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Stephen Verona Biography ((?)-)

Addresses: HOME--1251 Stone Canyon Road, Bel Air, CA 90024. AGENT--David Shapira and Associates, 15301 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

Stephen Verona told CTFT that he painted the official portrait of Governor Jerry Brown of California for the 1980 Presidential election campaign. He alsopainted the poster for the Music Center Dance Presentations International Ballets at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, in 1981 and the menu cover for Ma Maison Restaurant.

Gender

Male

Famous Works

• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM WORK
• Director, producer, and co-writer, The Lords of Flatbush, Columbia, 1974.
• director, producer, and writer, Pipe Dreams, AVCO-Embassy, 1976.
• director and co-writer, Boardwalk, Atlantic, 1979.
• director and writer, Talking Walls, 1983.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION WORK; SPECIALS
• Production designer and animation director, Class of 1966, NBC, 1966.
• director, producer, co-writer, and editor, Different Strokes, CBS, 1970.
• director, producer, and co-writer, The Music People, CBS, 1972.
• director, co-producer, and writer, Double Exposure, CBS, 1972.
• Credits; EPISODIC
• Artist, producer, and director, Sesame Street, PBS, 1971.
• producer and director, Take a Giant Step, NBC, 1971.
• Credits; PILOTS
• Producer and co-writer, Flatbush Avenue J, ABC, 1976.
• Credits; VIDEOS
• I Ten, CBS Epic, 1983.
• Natalie Cole, CBS Epic, 1983.
• Mick Fleetwood with Stevie Nicks, RCA, 1983.
• Boy George and Culture Club, CBS Epic, 1983.
• Will Ackerman, Windham Hill, 1984.
• Alex de Grassi, Windham Hill, 1984.
• Liz Story, Windham Hill, 1984.
• Western Light, Pioneer Classic, 1984.
• Where Are You Tonight, Organically Grown, 1984.
• Writings;SCREENPLAYS
• Lapis Lazuli, independent, 1967.
• Forever a Festival, Alliance, 1969.
• Wednesday's Child, Alliance, 1969.
• The Mabinogian, independent, 1970.
• Primary Colors, Koch-Kirkwood, 1981.
• Deception, independent, 1983.
• Dear Diary, independent, 1985.
• The Children of the Lords, United Artists, 1985.
• The Lords of Flatbush 22 Years Later, Cannon, upcoming.
• Also short subject films: Life Elektra, 1960; Impromt-2, 1965; The EmptyHand, ACI, 1965; My Coloring Book, 1965; She Said Go, Apple, London, 1966; French Provincial, United Artists, 1966; Rain on the Roof, 1967; Five Will GetYou Ten-Sergeant Pepper, Apple, 1967; The Rehearsal, Schoenfeld, 1968; Most Peculiar Man, 1969; Different Strokes, Schoenfeld, 1970.
• Writings;TELEVISION; MOVIES
• Tales of the Nile, CBS, 1979.
• Jack's Video, CBS, 1986.
• His work was also featured on The Art of Film, PBS.