{{Short description|American musician and film director}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|03|20}} | birth_place = Ames, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|10|31|1937|03|20}} | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | occupation = Musician, film director, actor | instrument = Violin, viola }}
'''David Schickele''' (March 20, 1937 – October 31, 1999) was an American musician, film director, and actor.
== Early life == He was born in Ames, Iowa to Alsatian immigrant parents. His father, Rainer, was the son of writer René Schickele. His brother Peter Schickele was a musician and parodist.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/arts/david-schickele-62-filmmaker-and-with-brother-a-parodist.html|title=David Schickele, 62, Filmmaker And, With Brother, a Parodist|first=Allan|last=Kozinn|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 11, 1999}}</ref> He grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and Washington, DC, and then studied English literature at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1958 (following his elder brother there, musician Peter Schickele).<ref>''Swarthmore College Bulletin,'' "Swarthmore's First Music Major: The Comic Underside of Music Convention," by Paul Wachter, September 2007.</ref>
== Career == From 1958-61 he played at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as a free-lance violist and recorded and toured the nation with the Robert Shaw Chorale.<ref>{{Cite news |title=David Schickele |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/David-Schickele-3059679.php |access-date=2024-01-16 |work=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref> In 1961, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English language at University of Nigeria Nsukka through 1963.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Busch |first=David S. |date=2018-10-12 |title=Service Learning: The Peace Corps, American Higher Education, and the Limits of Modernist Ideas of Development and Citizenship |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2018.28 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=475–505 |doi=10.1017/heq.2018.28 |s2cid=149819944 |issn=0018-2680|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In an essay "When the Right Hand Washes the Left" published in the ''Swarthmore College Bulletin'' in 1963, he reflected on his Peace Corps experience:
"This to me is the meaning of the Peace Corps as a new frontier. It is the call to go, not where man has never been before, but where he has lived differently; the call to experience firsthand the intricacies of a different culture; to understand from the inside rather than the outside; and to test the limits of one’s own way of life against another in the same manner as the original pioneer tested the limits of his endurance against the elements."<ref>{{Cite web |title="When the Right Hand Washes the Left" by David Schickele (Nigeria) – Peace Corps Worldwide |url=https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/when-the-right-hand-washes-the-left-by-david-schickele-nigeria/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=peacecorpsworldwide.org}}</ref>
When he returned to the U.S., he made the first major film about the Peace Corps related to his experiences in Nigeria titled ''Give Me a Riddle'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/scene/people-news/david-schickele-1117883433/|title=David Schickele|first=Jill|last=Pesselnick|website=Variety.com|date=December 17, 1999}}</ref> In 1971, he directed his second film ''Bushman'', which was restored and released in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Bushman" To Be Released From The Archives |url=https://thenollywoodreporter.com/news/bushman-to-be-released-from-the-archives/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=The Nollywood Reporter |language=en}}</ref> The film won numerous awards, including Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival. It was also accepted by the Pacific Film Archive at UC-Berkeley, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their archives. In 1992, his last film ''Tuscarora'' was released.
In 1978, he contributed some music to ''Northern Lights'', a film by Rob Nilsson whom he met during his time in Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inforum.com/entertainment/movies/4631151-Eriksmoen-15-year-old-Fargo-orchestra-conductor-became-a-movie-actor-director|title=Eriksmoen: 15-year-old Fargo orchestra conductor became a movie actor, director|website=Inforum.com|date=September 7, 2019 }}</ref> He later starred in two of his films, ''Signal Seven'' and ''Heat and Sunlight''. He also starred in seven movies directed by Bobby Roth – ''Dead Solid Perfect'' (1988), ''Keeper of the City'' (1991), ''The Switch'' (1992), ''Judgment Day: The John List Story'' (1993), ''Ride with the Wind'' (1993), ''Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty'' (1995), and ''Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge'' (1995). In 1979, he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/david-schickele/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | David Schickele|website=Gf.org|access-date=October 28, 2021|archive-date=October 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027215136/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/david-schickele/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He died in San Francisco at the age of 62.<ref name="nytimes" />
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0771350}}
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