Rocco Urbisci

{{short description|American film director}}

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Rocco Urbisci is an American director, producer and film and television writer.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/114905/Rocco-Urbisci|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525081645/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/114905/Rocco-Urbisci|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-25|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2008|title=Rocco Urbisci}}

Urbisci has written films and television shows such as Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling,{{cite web |title=SCREEN: 'JO JO DANCER' (Published 1986) |website=The New York Times |date=May 2, 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906183255/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/02/movies/screen-jo-jo-dancer.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=September 6, 2017 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/02/movies/screen-jo-jo-dancer.html?pagewanted=all |last1=Canby |first1=Vincent }} The Richard Pryor Show[http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20060221/AE/102210017 Aspentimes.com] and the made for television sequel to The Jerk entitled The Jerk, Too with Mark Blankfield replacing Steve Martin in the lead.

Urbisci worked frequently with comedian George Carlin and produced and directed many of Carlin's comedy specials.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103163411/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/114905/Rocco-Urbisci/filmography The New York Times]

He won an Emmy for producing the 1981 Lily Tomlin comedy special Lily: Sold Out.{{cite web |title=TV: LILY TOMLIN GOES LAS VEGAS (Published 1981) |website=The New York Times |date=February 2, 1981 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822195152/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/02/arts/tv-lily-tomlin-goes-las-vegas.html |archive-date=August 22, 2016 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/02/arts/tv-lily-tomlin-goes-las-vegas.html |last1=O'Connor |first1=John J. }}