# Jock Brandis

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{{Short description|Canadian actor and writer}}
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'''Jock Brandis''' is an author, film actor, film technician, inventor, and humanitarian. Brandis has received the 2006 ''[Popular Mechanics](/source/Popular_Mechanics)'' Breakthrough Award for Innovation and the 2008 [Purpose Prize](/source/Purpose_Prize), which he received in recognition for his work and experience.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a1386/4212850/|title=Peanut Power: Building A Better Sheller|date=2009-12-18|magazine=Popular Mechanics|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref>

Brandis was born in the Netherlands and moved to Canada in his youth. He joined  [CUSO](/source/CUSO), a Canadian humanitarian group in his twenties and later got involved with other charitable organizations such as [Oxfam](/source/Oxfam). After returning to Canada Brandis began working in multiple films as a gaffer, cinematographer, and on lighting and special effects. If necessary, Brandis would use various odds and ends to create special cameras or lighting rigs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JO0OV7uffc8C&q=%22Peanuts%22+%22Brandis%22&pg=PT173|title=CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People: Inside the World of Design Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovati on|last=Berger|first=Warren|date=2010-12-28|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101478066|language=en}}</ref> Brandis would later state that his experience working with charitable organizations made it easier to create these items.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2009-01-01|title=A NUTTY INSPIRATION|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1650410991.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911193343/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1650410991.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-09-11|journal=Aging Today}}</ref> During the 70s Brandis and his wife, Suzanna, were the subjects of the documentary film ''The Salvage Prince'', which focused on their efforts to restore a historic tugboat.

In 2002 Brandis began working on a water treatment system for a small village in [Mali](/source/Mali). During this time he discovered that the village's women spent much of their time shelling peanuts by hand, a process that would often leave their hands bloody and sore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130890701|title=How A Promise Led To Innovation: A Peanut Sheller|date=November 10, 2010|website=NPR|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref> To alleviate their burden Brandis contacted Dr. Tim Williams of UGA, who informed him of a Bulgarian peanut shelling design. With the help of a friend, Brandis adapted the design, which went through several redesigns before he completed the [Universal Nut Sheller](/source/Universal_Nut_Sheller).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/02/28/heroes.brandis/index.html?iref=newssearch|title=CNN Heroes: Peanut farmers get a big hand from simple device|website=CNN|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref>  Brandis's work on the sheller was later covered in the 2002 short documentary film ''Peanuts'' and in the 2007 book ''The Promise of Peanuts: A real-life fairy tale''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The promise of peanuts: a real-life fairy tale|last=Gwenyfar|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Trafford|isbn=9781425100858|location=Victoria, BC|oclc=213524391|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Harbury|first1=Martin|title=Peanuts|date=2002-01-01|last2=Swing|author3=Bullfrog Films|author4=Bar Harbour Films inc.|first2=Catherine|publisher=Bullfrog Films|language=English|isbn=1560299746|oclc=52062937}}</ref>

In 2014 Brandis and author Gwenyfar Rohler finished work on a stage adaptation of the 1977 film ''[Death Bed: The Bed That Eats](/source/Death_Bed%3A_The_Bed_That_Eats),'' in which Brandis starred as a priest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://portcitydaily.com/2014/09/17/death-bed/|title=Best of the 'worst': Local writer gives new life to cult classic 'Death Bed'|last=Snow|first=Hillary|date=September 17, 2014|publisher=Port City Daily|access-date=2016-06-27|archive-date=2016-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609045853/http://portcitydaily.com/2014/09/17/death-bed/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/10/worst-movie-ever-death-bed-debuts-stage/|title=An interview with Gwenyfar Rohler, writer of Death Bed: The Bed That Eats|date=2014-10-25|website=Flickering Myth|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref> Brandis also worked on the film's special effects and created the titular "Bed That Eats"''.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a29626/death-bed-worst-movie/|title=The Worst Movie That Time Forgot|date=2014-08-04|website=Esquire|access-date=2016-06-27}}</ref> The play covered both the film's plot and the making of the film.

== Books ==
*{{cite book|last1=Brandis|first1=Jock|title=The Ship's Cat|date=2000|publisher=Writers Club Press|location=San Jose, TX|isbn=9780595129973}}

== Filmography ==

=== As actor ===
* ''[Death Bed: The Bed That Eats](/source/Death_Bed%3A_The_Bed_That_Eats)'' (1977, as Priest, also worked on special effects)
* ''[Scanners](/source/Scanners)'' (1981, as Scanner in Attic)
* ''[Maximum Overdrive](/source/Maximum_Overdrive)'' (1986, as Dump Truck Driver, uncredited)

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
{{wikinews|Jock Brandis: engineering the end of hunger}}

* {{IMDb name|id=0104680}}
* [http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/pnuts.html Official website] for ''Peanuts''
* [http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=4622 A Review of Peanuts]
* [http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1009178.html Article about the Jock and the Full Belly Project] at [Peace Corps Online](/source/Peace_Corps)

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