Kurt Voss

Kurt Voss
Born
Kurt Christopher Peter Wössner

Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, musician, songwriter
Years active1987–present
Spouses
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    (m. 1990; div. 1993)​
  • Sara Ashley
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    (m. 2012)​

Kurt Voss (born Kurt Christopher Peter Wössner) is an American film director, screenwriter, and musician-songwriter. Voss's credits include Will Smith's debut Where The Day Takes You; the Justin Theroux, Alyssa Milano and Ice-T action film Below Utopia; actress Jaime Pressly's debut feature Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, and rock and roll related films including Down and Out with the Dolls[1] and Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club.[2]

Voss has frequently collaborated with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders.[3] Working together over twenty-five years, the duo created a trilogy of rock films: Border Radio (1987), a portrait of the L.A. punk scene featuring John Doe (X) and Dave Alvin (The Blasters) and published by The Criterion Collection;[4] the Sundance-premiered Sugar Town (1999),[5] featuring John Taylor (Duran Duran) and Rosanna Arquette; and Strutter (2012), a Kickstarter-financed independent film.[6]

  1. ^ Eddie Cockrell (30 July 2001). "Down and Out with the Dolls (Review)". Variety. p. 20.
  2. ^ "Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club". IMDb.com. 29 June 2006. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Alumnus Kurt Voss' New Film Epitomizes the Independent Spirit". UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. 4 April 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2012.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Border Radio". Criterion.com. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  5. ^ Sugar Town (film)
  6. ^ Steve Appleford (13 April 2013). "Allison Anders and Kurt Voss Keep the Music Playing". Los Angeles Times. p. 3.