William Kronick
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Born in Amsterdam, New York, William Kronick graduated from Columbia
College, then served in the U. S. Navy as a Photographer's Mate. He
enjoyed a long career as a filmmaker, beginning with his apprenticeship
to Ingmar Bergman at Svenskfilmindustri Studios, Stockholm. He then
joined the Louis de Rochemont Company in New York as a production
assistant. His first film, the featurette A Bowl of Cherries, a comedy
set in the New York art scene, originally played in nearly a thousand
theaters in this country and abroad. During his lengthy career as
director, producer and writer he received an Academy Award Special
Certificate of Merit for The Ends Of The Earth, his feature-length
chronicle of the British Transglobe Expedition. Mr. Kronick resides in
Los Angeles where he recently completed his fifth novel.
