John C. Broderick

John C. Broderick was born in San Francisco, California, USA. John's entertainment career began as a high school student actor in South San Francisco and while at college worked as a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He performed in the Troupe's award-winning production of "A Minstrel Show" (or "Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel"). He attended film schools in Sweden and London and returned to the US to ply his trade. Initially he directed underground films in New York City and then moved on to a producing, directing, acting and editing career in Hollywood. As a producer and production manager he is known for Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Innerspace (1987) and A Bedfull of Foreigners (1996) which he also wrote and directed. He died on June 17, 2001 in Santa Monica, California.