Jack Epps, Jr

Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
11/03/1949
Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan
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It was a fateful day in 1975 at the student union of Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI when Jack Epps Jr, a graduate and award-winning student filmmaker, returned to his alma mater for coffee and chili with one of his former instructors, Jim Cash. Epps had made the trek to Hollywood after graduation, and had begun to make some inroads, scripting episodes of such TV series as "Kojak" and "Hawaii Five-O". But he wanted to move to the big screen. During the course of a forty-minute conversation, Epps and Cash mapped out the skeleton plots for ten motion pictures, of which several Continued
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Milestone
 
While attending Michigan State University, took film course taught by Jim Cash
 
After graduating, moved to Hollywood; broke into screenwriting with episodes of TV series "Kojak" and "Hawaii Five-O"
1975 
Met with Cash in Michigan; decided to team to write screenplays; at initial meeting outlined ten ideas for screenplays
 
Sold first screenplays, "Izzy and Moe" (later filmed for TV with another writer's script) and the unproduced "Dangerously"
1984 
Epps (alone) contributed story for and produced TV-movie "Off Sides" (NBC)
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