P. J. Pesce

P. J. Pesce
Born	1961 (age 55–56) United States
Occupation	Film director

P. J. Pesce is an American film director and writer. He is also the co-creator of the MTV cartoon The Adventures of Chico and Guapo, as well as the voice actor of Guapo and Mr. Angelo.

Pesce was born and raised in Miami, Florida, in 1961. After completing an undergraduate degree in both English literature and architecture at Columbia University. He entered the Graduate Film School and studied directing under Martin Scorsese and Brian DePalma. Pesce has worked as a musician, a film editor, a studio recording engineer, and a film instructor at Columbia, UCLA, and USC, as a groom at Calder Racetrack. He studied editing with Ralph Rosenblum (Annie Hall, The Pawnbroker) and acting with Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).

Pesce was named Best Independent Director of the Year at the Hamptons International Film Festival for his critically acclaimed film The Desperate Trail, which he wrote and directed. Entertainment Weekly called it “The best Western on any size screen since Unforgiven”, and Tom Shales of the Washington Post described it as "a new high point in the cable movie”. It was the second highest rated cable movie of 1995, and in addition it sold over 60,000 home video units.

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