NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, April 26, 2014, 1:12 AM
A Brooklyn magazine writer and movie buff who played a bit part in the 1960 B-movie “Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates” has gone missing, police said Friday.
John Cocchi, 74, was last seen walking out of his Gelston Ave. home in Bay Ridge at about 8:30 p.m. on April 16.
Family members reported him missing on Friday.
“It’s tough,” said his brother Robert Cocchi, 72, who added that his older brother suffers from depression. “He had a doctor’s appointment on the day after he disappeared, but he didn’t make it. Now, every day the phone rings, we think we’re going to hear something, but we haven’t heard anything. We’re just hoping he’s okay.”
Robert Cocchi described his brother as an avid cinema fan who at one time worked for an entertainment magazine in Midtown.
Cocchi also wrote two books: a movie quiz book and a non-fiction work about B-level Westerns, his brother said.
He also spent time in front of the camera as well.
Cocchi played a small role in “Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates,” in which a villain known as the “Master Duper” threatens to hijack negatives of classic films, copy them and sell them to film collectors.
The movie, which was an homage to 1930s movie serials, came out in 1966, before video recorders were invented.
Cocchi also did work on “Five Bloody Graves” in 1970 and the documentary “Cinemania” in 2002, according to his Internet Movie Database page.
Anyone with information regarding Cocchi’s whereabouts is urged to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers tipline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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