The Bruthers Delia was one of nine brothers and grew-up in
Pearl River, New York. Delia told
The Morning Call in 1966 that their father, Alfred W. Delia, was always supportive of his sons' creative endeavors. Delia served as Ferrara's cinematographer for his 1976 pornographic film,
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy, under the
pseudonym Francis X. Wolfe. Delia worked as a photographer for
Hustler magazine, along with creative director
Stephen Sayadian and writer
Jerry Stahl. The company started out producing
movie trailers. including trailers for the films
A Night In Heaven and
Revenge of the Nerds, which were both directed by Delia, but within a couple of years the company's focus shifted to mostly
music video production. Delia's first music video was for the
Wall of Voodoo single "
Mexican Radio". Some of the other songs for which he directed videos include "
The Real World" by
The Bangles, "
A Million Miles Away" by
The Plimsouls, "
Somebody's Watching Me" by
Rockwell, "
Heard The News" by
David Johansen, "
Colored Lights" by
The Blasters, "
The Right to Rock" by
Keel and "
Love Always" by
El DeBarge. Delia also directed videos for
Starship's singles "
We Built This City", "
Sara", and "
Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight". He filmed
The Fleshtones for
The Beast of IRS Video, Vol I, a compilation of clips of music artists on the
I.R.S. Records label, in addition to a film of
Gary Numan in concert and a series of
public service announcements for the campaign titled "Fight the Fear with Facts" by the
AIDS Project Los Angeles. Delia's feature film debut was the 1988 thriller
Freeway, starring
Darlanne Fluegel,
James Russo and
Michael Callan, which Delia both wrote and directed. He also directed episodes of the television series
Max Headroom,
Friday the 13th: The Series (and wrote one episode),
Against the Law and
War of the Worlds. In the 2000s Delia founded the film production company called Radioactive Digital Pictures, or RADPics, and in the 2010s it was announced that Delia was working on two film projects with musician
Phil Driscoll, a music feature film titled
Symphony of the Universe, as well as
A Long Day Journey, a biopic about Driscoll's life starring
Danny Glover,
Derek Luke and
Brian Dennehy that was to be released in
3D format, although these films have yet to be released. ==Filmography==