- Film and television director best known for directing the music video for Michael Jackson's song "Beat it".
- With his jock sensibility, he successfully directed series of very popular Miller Lite commercials in the 1980s, ("More taste, less filling") featuring many famous athletes, plus the much-less athletic Rodney Dangerfield.
- Was former creative director of advertising agency DellaFemina & Partners in early 1970s before starting his own production company which has produced and directed close to 3000 commercials, music videos and short films.
- Born to a working-class Italian-American family.
- Attended Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York on a baseball and basketball scholarship, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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