Francis Delia

Career The Bruthers Delia was one of nine brothers and grew-up in Pearl River, New York.

Delia told The Morning Call in 1966 that their father, Alfred W. Delia, was always supportive of his sons' creative endeavors. Delia served as Ferrara's cinematographer for his 1976 pornographic film, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy, under the pseudonym Francis X. Wolfe.

Delia worked as a photographer for Hustler magazine, along with creative director Stephen Sayadian and writer Jerry Stahl. The company started out producing movie trailers. including trailers for the films A Night In Heaven and Revenge of the Nerds, which were both directed by Delia, but within a couple of years the company's focus shifted to mostly music video production.

Delia's first music video was for the Wall of Voodoo single "Mexican Radio".

Some of the other songs for which he directed videos include "The Real World" by The Bangles, "A Million Miles Away" by The Plimsouls, "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell, "Heard The News" by David Johansen, "Colored Lights" by The Blasters, "The Right to Rock" by Keel and "Love Always" by El DeBarge. Delia also directed videos for Starship's singles "We Built This City", "Sara", and "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight". He filmed The Fleshtones for The Beast of IRS Video, Vol I, a compilation of clips of music artists on the I.R.S. Records label, in addition to a film of Gary Numan in concert and a series of public service announcements for the campaign titled "Fight the Fear with Facts" by the AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Delia's feature film debut was the 1988 thriller Freeway, starring Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo and Michael Callan, which Delia both wrote and directed. He also directed episodes of the television series Max Headroom, Friday the 13th: The Series (and wrote one episode), Against the Law and War of the Worlds.

In the 2000s Delia founded the film production company called Radioactive Digital Pictures, or RADPics, and in the 2010s it was announced that Delia was working on two film projects with musician Phil Driscoll, a music feature film titled Symphony of the Universe, as well as A Long Day Journey, a biopic about Driscoll's life starring Danny Glover, Derek Luke and Brian Dennehy that was to be released in 3D format, although these films have yet to be released.

Filmography Films Year Title Director Writer Producer Cinematographer Notes 1976 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy Credited as Francis X. Wolfe 1981 Nightdreams Credited as F.X. Pope 1982 Café Flesh Credited as F.X. Pope 1988 Freeway 1993 Trouble Bound Co-producer 1999 Time of Her Time 2005 An American Haunting Co-executive producer 2008 The Game: Life After the Math Documentary about rapper The Game

Music videos

Television