John Hockridge, an accomplished first assistant director, has collaborated with director Peter Segal on eight films, including one starring Adam Sandler Anger management, 50 first dates And a new edition of The longest yardHe died. He was 79 years old.
Hockridge died April 17 of liver cancer in Portland, Oregon, his daughter, Lindsay Hockridge, said. Hollywood Reporter. He was diagnosed with stage 4 in December.
Hockridge also collaborated with John Badham Drop zone (1994) and Nick of time (1995), with Jerry Zucker ghost (1990) and Rat race (2001) and with David Zucker Scary movie 3 (2003).
His biography included M soapdish (1991), Roughness is necessary (1991), Penelope Spheeris Where is the world? (1992), Leap of faith (1992), Philip Noyce sliver (1993), Kevin Hawkes Black dog (1998), Mothman prophecies (2002), Cats and Dogs: Kitty Galore’s Revenge (2010) and When in Rome (2010).
He worked on the first three films directed by Seagal, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Indignity (1994), Tommy Boy (1995) and My fellow Americans (1996), followed by Be smart (2008) and Grudge match (2013).
What does advertising do? “Generally speaking, we’re logistics people,” he said in 2003. “I joke that I’m the main person on set. But I don’t really work that way and I don’t like people who do it. The biggest job an ad does is to try to reduce the time it takes the DP to get the set and actors ready and the cameras running.”
John Edward Hockridge was born on April 2, 1947 in Mexico, Missouri. His father, D.W., was a manager at J.C. Penney, and the family moved frequently with his father in charge of opening new stores. He studied engineering at the University of Oklahoma before graduating with a degree in graphic design in 1969.
He and his red afro came to Hollywood in his Volkswagen in 1969 and spent a year at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. He began working in commercials after taking on image development and printing as an apprentice for a local photographer.
It served as an advertisement on TV shows such as Charlie’s Angels and T. J. HookerThen he began working on his first film, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Directed by Leonard Nimoy. He will return to television with running gigs Houston died, Airwolf, beauty and the beast and Area.
Hockridge worked at Paramount for many years before moving into freelance work and retiring in 2013, spending most of his final years traveling the world. His family noted that he “enjoyed nothing as much as having a great meal with his family and watching the clouds as the sun began to set.”
Survivors include his daughters, Lindsay and Kylie. Their partners, Michael and William, and his three grandchildren.
