Jack McCoy

Biography

Masterful surf film and video-maker from Australia; winner of the Surfer Magazine Video of the Year Award in 1996 and 1999, and widely regarded as the sport's premier cinematographer of the 1990s and early 2000s. McCoy was born (1948) in Los Angeles, the son of a radio and TV show host, spent his early childhood in Hollywood, and moved with his family in 1954 to Hawaii, where he soon began surfing.

Directed

1. A Deeper Shade of Blue (2011) — Director
2. Storm Riders (1980) — Director
3. Blue Horizon (2004) — Director
4. Tubular Swells (1976) — Director
5. Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left (1995) — Director
6. Free as a Dog (2006) — Director
7. Pump! (1990) — Director
8. TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti (2001) — Director
9. Bunyip Dreaming (1990) — Director
10. The Green Iguana (1992) — Director
11. TO' day of days (2003) — Director
12. Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds — Director
13. Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlm — Director
14. Sons of Fun (1993) — Director
15. Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open (1997) — Director
16. Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay (1995) — Director
17. Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives (1999) — Director
18. Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove (1996) — Director
19. Kong's Island (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Isolated (2013) — Self - Ambassador for Peace
2. Fish: The Surfboard Documentary (2016) — Self