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Joshua Sinclair

b. 1957

American writer, actor and director

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Born 1957. Joshua Sinclair is an American actor, film producer, writer, film director, screenwriter and film actor.

John Louis Loffredo, known by the pen name Joshua Sinclair, is an American writer, actor, filmmaker and physician.

Early life John Louis Loffredo was born in New York City. He initially planned to be a missionary, and began writing screenplays at the age of 14.

Film career In the early 1970s, he moved to Rome, and made his film acting debut in Vittorio De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. He appeared in various films, notably several collaborations with Enzo G. Castellari and Roberto Rossellini. He was sometimes credited under the Italianized stage names Gianni Loffredo and Gianluigi Loffredo.

Later in the decade, he moved to Austria. Casanova & Co. (1977), and Judgment in Berlin (1988); and wrote The Golden Lady (1979).

In 1985, Sinclair published the historical novel Shaka Zulu, based on the life of the 19th-century Zulu King. The following year, the novel was adapted into a SABC miniseries of the same name in 1986.

Medicine In the 1980s, Sinclair left acting to pursue a career in medicine. He graduated from the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, as an M.D. with a specialization in tropical medicine. As a member of Médecins Sans Frontières, he worked at Grant Medical College in India (where he worked with Mother Teresa Co-Executive Producer 1979 The Golden Lady Writer 1980 The Last Shark Mayor William Wells Actor 1982 1990: The Bronx Warriors Ice Actor 1986 Shaka Zulu Television series, based on Sinclair's own novel, Writer 1987 Hangmen Phillipe Fosterlan 1988 Judgment in Berlin Alan Sherman Actor, writer, producer 2001 Shaka Zulu - Last Great Warrior Director 2007 Jump! Director 2018 A Rose in Winter Director, writer

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University of Virginia

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Who is Joshua Sinclair?

American writer, actor and director

When was Joshua Sinclair born?

Joshua Sinclair was born on 7 May 1957 in New York City.

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Joshua Sinclair is an actor, film producer, writer, film director, screenwriter and film actor.

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Joshua Sinclair is American.

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· Wikipedia: Joshua Sinclair

· Wikidata: Q345771

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