Joshua Sinclair
{{short description|American actor, writer, filmmaker and physician (b. 1953)}}
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| other_names = {{hlist|Gianni Loffredo|Gianluigi Loffredo}}
| birth_name = John Louis Loffredo
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1953|5|7}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
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| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|writer|producer|director|physician}}
| years_active = 1970–present
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John Louis Loffredo (born May 7, 1953), known by the pen name Joshua Sinclair, is an American writer, actor, filmmaker and physician.{{Cite web |title=Joshua Sinclair - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006774/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125210255/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006774/ |archive-date=2019-01-25 |access-date=2018-06-30 |website=IMDb}}
Biography
Sinclair was born John Louis Loffredo in New York City. He initially planned to be a missionary, and began writing screenplays at the age of 14.{{cite web |title=Camera Q&A: Joshua Sinclair on Shaka Zulu and apartheid |url=http://camerainthesun.com/?p=25727 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211161936/http://camerainthesun.com/?p=25727 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |accessdate=8 January 2019 |website=CITS}}
= Film career =
In the early 1970s, he moved to Rome, and made his film acting debut in Vittorio De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. He appeared in various films, notably several collaborations with Enzo G. Castellari and Roberto Rossellini. He was sometimes credited under the Italianized stage names Gianni Loffredo and Gianluigi Loffredo.{{Cite web |title=A ROSE IN WINTER LIMITED filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10297503/filing-history |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}
Later in the decade, he moved to Austria.
In 1978, he wrote and produced the film Just a Gigolo, starring David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich. He contributed to the screenplay for Enzo G. Castellari's Spaghetti Western Keoma (1976),{{Cite AV media |title=Keoma (Commentary with director Enzo G. Castellari and journalist Waylon Wahlberg) |date=1976 |medium=DVD |publisher=Blue Underground |location=Los Angeles, California}}{{Cite AV media |title=Keoma (Keoma: Legends Never Die - Interview with Franco Nero) |date=1976 |medium=DVD |publisher=Blue Underground |location=Los Angeles, California}} Casanova & Co. (1977), and Judgment in Berlin (1988); and wrote The Golden Lady (1979).
In 1985, Sinclair published the historical novel Shaka Zulu, based on the life of the 19th-century Zulu King. The following year, the novel was adapted into a SABC miniseries of the same name. In 2001, he wrote and directed a sequel telefilm, Shaka Zulu: The Citadel.
In 2018, he wrote and directed the film A Rose in Winter, a biopic of Edith Stein (Saint Teresa of the Cross).{{Cite web |title=A Rose in Winter |url=https://miamijewishfilmfestival.org/films/2019/a_rose_in_winter |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=Miami Jewish Film Festival |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Tenorio |first=Rich |title=Controversial canonized nun Edith Stein becomes tragic Queen Esther in new film |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/controversial-canonized-nun-edith-stein-becomes-tragic-queen-esther-in-new-film/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US}}
= Medicine =
In the 1980s, Sinclair left acting to pursue a career in medicine. He graduated from the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, as an M.D. with a specialization in tropical medicine. As a member of Médecins Sans Frontières, he worked at Grant Medical College in India (where he worked with Mother Teresa) and Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa.
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1970
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | | |
| 1971
| La lunga spiaggia fredda | Thomas | |
| 1971
| John | |
| 1971
| Young Rimbaud | |
| 1972
| The Assassination of Trotsky | Sam | |
| 1972
| | |
| 1973
| Stefano Ferrante | Actor |
| 1973
| Non ho tempo | | |
| 1975
| Il messia | Guardia Romana | Uncredited |
| 1976
| Rudy | |
| 1976
| Keoma | Sam Shannon | Actor, writer |
| 1977
| Gianni | |
| 1977
| Oaks | |
| 1977
| | Writer |
| 1978
| The Sergeant | |
| 1978
| Ring | Don Farracone | |
| 1978
| |
| 1979
| | Writer |
| 1980
| Mayor William Wells | Actor |
| 1982
| Ice | Actor |
| 1986
| | Television series, based on Sinclair's own novel, Writer{{cite web |title=Camera Q&A: Joshua Sinclair on Shaka Zulu and apartheid |url=http://camerainthesun.com/?p=25727 |website=CITS |accessdate=8 January 2019 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211161936/http://camerainthesun.com/?p=25727 |url-status=live }} |
| 1987
| Hangmen | Phillipe Fosterlan | |
| 1988
| Alan Sherman | Actor, writer, producer |
| 2001
| Shaka Zulu - Last Great Warrior | Director | |
| 2007
| Jump! | Director | |
| 2018
| A Rose in Winter | | Director, writer |
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Category:American male film actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century American physicians
Category:University of Virginia alumni
Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni
Category:21st-century American actors
Category:21st-century American physicians
Category:20th-century American writers
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:American male television actors
Category:American expatriates in Italy
Category:American expatriates in Austria
Category:Médecins Sans Frontières
Category:American people of Italian descent
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