Ira Berkowitz Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Ira Berkowitz
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ira Berkowitz (born on October 8, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer of crime fiction. His Jackson Steeg Mystery Series novels are set in Hell’s Kitchen. Berkowitz’s debut novel Family Matters, published in 2006, won the Washington Irving Award for Literary Merit, and was a USAToday Top Ten Summer Read selection. He followed up with his second Washington Irving Award for his novel, Old Flame published in 2008. The third novel in the Jackson Steeg series, Sinners' Ball published in December 2009., won the Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback Crime Fiction Novel of 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ira Berkowitz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography Movies
Acting
Before I Self Destruct
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
The Broken Tower
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
The Brain Hunter
A quiet little mid-west town is disturbed by an unforeseen occurrence. Twenty years after, Cemetery Town is again disrupted by a series of killings. The town's caretaker, Cliff is in the center of the chaos. When Cliff decides to care for a demon, he soon realizes mankind and the supernatural should not merge.
Peter Bartok Jr.
Laura arrives in New York to join Viktor, a Hungarian filmmaker she has been working with on a documentary about Béla Bartók. At the same time Pierre, a film director from Paris, is in town looking for an actor to play the role of Bartók’s grandson in a fiction film he will be shooting in France. Fiction and reality are intertwined as the characters jump from one story to another in order to locate the missing parts of a puzzle that will unveil a mystery surrounding the death of the famous composer.