John Cocchi(1939-2014)

Cocchi was reputed for his encyclopedic knowledge of old Hollywood films, Beginning in 1967 he was involved with the programming of 16mm collector prints of rare and obscure such titles, many of them "B" films, at New York City's CoOperative Film Society. During the 1970s, he was a reporter and reviewer of movies for Boxoffice magazine. He did research that contributed some of the information that was read by Bob Dorian in the introductions to films on the American Movie Classics cable channel starting in the late 1980s. He also wrote the book, "Second Feature," published by Citadel Press in 1991. When the American Film Institute published its catalogue of American Feature Films From 1931 to 1940 in 1993, they used some of the cast lists he had compiled of unbilled character and bit players.