Joseph Feur

Joseph Feury (born 1939; Joseph Fioretti) is an American film and television producer, documentary filmmaker, painter, actor, stage dancer, and Academy Award winner.

Life and work Joseph Fioretti grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware. For Grant's 1986 documentary on homelessness in the US under President Ronald Reagan, Down and Out in America, Feury and with his co-producer Milton Justice received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature the following year. He went on to produce a number of documentary films and TV movies. The documentary film Baghdad ER took a look at the activities of US military surgeons in the Iraq war zone. Produced in conjunction with DCTV, HBO, and his longtime collaborators Roberta Morris Purdee and wife Lee Grant, the film went on to win four Emmys, a Peabody, and the Dupont-Columbia.

In 2012, Joseph Feury began to professionally paint and also worked as draftsman. His works have been exhibited in galleries in Manhattan and across the United States. Grant colleagues such as Alan Alda, Joy Behar and Michael Douglas, a close friend of Feury's for decades, own works by Feury. His complete oeuvre was published in a book entitled Artworks of Joseph Fioretti.

In October 2019 Feury received a retrospective of his artwork at the National Arts Club in New York City.

Filmography As producer unless otherwise stated: 1969: Peyton Place (actor only) 1970: The Pleasure Game 1971: The Jesus Trip 1976: The Stranger (short film) 1983, 1989, 1992: America Undercover (documentary series) 1984: A Matter of Sex (also screenplay participation) 1986: Nobody's Child 1986: Down and Out in America (documentary) 1989: Staying Together 1989: No Place Like Home 1994: Seasons of the Heart 1995: Last Summer in the Hamptons (actor) 1997: Say It, Fight It, Cure It 1993–2004: Intimate Portrait (TV documentary series) 2005: Going Shopping (actor) 2005: ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (documentary) 2006: Baghdad ER (documentary)