Jack McCoy photo

Jack McCoy

Directing

  • Place of birth
  • Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

As actor 2

Isolated poster
Isolated
2013
Fish: The Surfboard Documentary poster
Fish: The Surfboard Documentary
2016

On the crew 20

Tubular Swells poster
Tubular Swells
1976
Blue Horizon poster
Blue Horizon
2004
Storm Riders poster
Storm Riders
1980
Bunyip Dreaming poster
Bunyip Dreaming
1990
Pump! poster
Pump!
1990
Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay poster
Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay
1995
TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti poster
TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to Tahiti
2001
Free as a Dog poster
Free as a Dog
2006
The Green Iguana poster
The Green Iguana
1992
Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlm
Kong's Island poster
Kong's Island
1983
TO' day of days
2003
Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove poster
Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert Groove
1996
Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives poster
Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives
1999
Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left poster
Billabong Challenge: The Mystery Left
1995
Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open poster
Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide Open
1997
The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez poster
The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez
2022
Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds poster
Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew Minds
Sons of Fun poster
Sons of Fun
1993
A Deeper Shade of Blue poster
A Deeper Shade of Blue
2011