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| WES CRAVEN usually spends his time on the other side of the camera. But this time out he was happy to make a cameo appearance in John Carpenter’s Body Bags. Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a working class family. While in school, he wrote and edited his school’s newspaper, including a regular comedy column. He attended Wheaton College in Illinois where he earned his BA in English. Offered a full scholarship, he continued at the John Hopkins Graduate Writing Seminars, studying under the Baltimore poet/scholar Eliot Coleman. In one year, Craven earned a Masters in writing and philosophy. Craven taught Humanities at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, then at Clarkson College in Potsdam, New York. While at Clarkson College, Craven bought a 16mm camera and began making small films. Within a year, he quit his teaching post and headed for New York, determined to break into films. Craven began as a messenger, worked his way up through the editing room and within a year and a half was given the chance to write, direct and edit his first feature film, The Last House on the Left. Since then, Craven has directed numerous feature films, movies of the week and episodes of The Twilight Zone. |
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