John Leone

Who is John Leone?

John Leone is an American film writer, director, and author. He is a member of the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild, and Musicians Local 47 in LA.

John Leone: Age, Family, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education

John was born on November 26, 1948, in Pasadena, California, USA. His full name is John Joseph Leone. As of 2021, he is 73 years old.

He is the son of Michael F. Leone and Elizabeth Rose Kemper Leone. His father is a federal judge, whereas his mother is a nurse and homemaker. He has six children.

Talking about his academic background, he went to Southern California Public Schools. Later, he enrolled at Phillips Academy in Andover.

John then studied at Harvard. He also studied prosody and versification with the Greek scholar and translator, Robert Fitzgerald.

Leone holds American, Irish, and Italian citizenship.

John Leone: Professional Life

John worked as a studio musician and producer at Clover Recorders in a partnership with Charles Plotkin. Before that, he worked as a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford, then as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute. From 1972 to 1982, he worked with his brother Michael Leone in a family-owned company that owned recording studios and produced, financed, and distributed 28 films in ten years.

They also produced the first anti-Vietnam War film, ‘Go Tell The Spartans’. In 1976, he directed the first film, Last of the Cowboys, starring Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon, and Eileen Brennan. He wrote a script for Intermedia and Oliver Stone from his novel Jihad in 2004. In 2010, he published ‘The Crowd Dreams of Love’. His other novels are Imaginary Numbers, World of Souls, and The Theatricals

Awards, Nominations

In 1970, John won the Book-of-the-Month Club Award as the best first novelist in America through a national competition.

Trivia

• He resides in Palermo, Sicily, and London.