William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as
Armchair Theatre and
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has also directed numerous successful films including the Australian
Wake in Fright (1971), action films such as the original
Rambo movie
First Blood (1982) and
Uncommon Valor (1983), and comedies like
Weekend at Bernie's (1989),
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), and
North Dallas Forty (1979). He is sometimes credited as
William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Given his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship.Kotcheff's given name is Velichko Todor Kostadin (Bulgarian:
Величко Тодор Костадин) Kotcheff, although he was registered in official documents as William Theodore Kotcheff. He was born in Toronto to a family of Bulgarian immigrants, who changed their last name from Tsochev (Bulgarian:
Цочев) to Kotcheff for convenience.His father was born in Plovdiv, while his mother was of Macedonian Bulgarian background, from Vambel, today in Greece, but grew up in Varna, Bulgaria.
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