John Bernard Hofsiss was an American theatre, film, and television director.
10 Facts About Jack Hofsiss
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Jack Hofsiss received a Tony Award for his direction of The Elephant Man on Broadway, the youngest director to have ever received it at the time.
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John Bernard Jack Hofsiss was born on September 28,1950, in Brooklyn.
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Jack Hofsiss grew up in New York City, as a Catholic, and served as an altar boy, which he has said was his "first experience of theatre".
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Jack Hofsiss then directed The Best of Families, a mini-series, for television in 1977.
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In 1985, Jack Hofsiss dived into a pool and had a spinal cord injury, resulting in paralysis up to his mid-chest.
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Jack Hofsiss spent eight months at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and used a wheelchair.
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Jack Hofsiss appeared in the documentary The Needs of Kim Stanley in 2005.
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Jack Hofsiss spoke candidly about the effect disability had on his life and work in the book Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists written by Jean Kennedy Smith and George Plimpton and published by Random House.
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Jack Hofsiss died at his home in Manhattan on September 13,2016, at the age of 65.