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Joe Dea, Reality TV and Music Video Director, Dies at 71
Joe Dea, a video music director, reality TV director and four-time Emmy winner, died Sunday of glioblastoma in Alameda, Calif. He was 71.
While in San Francisco, he became a founding member of Videowest, the groundbreaking comedy, music video and alternative news production company. Greg Kihn’s “Jeopardy” and “Happy Man” are on the list along with Krokus’ “Screaming in the Night,” the first heavy metal video to air in prominent rotation on MTV. In the late 1980s, Dea moved to Los Angeles, where he directed multiple network, cable and syndicated TV episodes in genres such as documentary, reality, stunts, live music, animation, plus historic and crime dramatic re-creations.
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