D.J. Caruso

D.J. Caruso Wiki

Real Name: Daniel John Caruso Jr.
Birth Place: Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Birth Date: January 17, 1965
Occupation: Director, Producer, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

D.J. Caruso Biography

Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Caruso came west to play tennis and study Television Production at Pepperdine University. Interned at Disney Studios in the Product Placement department and later hooked up with Director John Badham, who mentored him into a second-unit director, after Badham lost his 2nd-unit director Rob Cohen to a first-unit directing career. He hooked up with writer Scott Rosenberg, who penned a short film for him entitled, Cyclops, Baby (1997). The film helped launch Caruso's directing career.

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