| John C. Crissey III | |
| Birth Date: | 1965 1, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Orlando, Florida, US |
| Nationality: | American Spanish |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom United States Ireland |
| Occupation: | Film producer (semiretired), lecturer and civic volunteer |
| Years Active: | 1997–present |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Newbold College, Andrews University (BBA) Rollins College (MBA) Royal Holloway, University of London (PhD) |
John Chappell Crissey III, also known as JC Crissey, is a semiretired British-American movie producer best known for helping bring to screen the international award-winning film Blinded (2004).
JC Crissey was born 30 January 1965 in Orlando, Florida to American and Spanish parents and raised in Winter Park, Florida, United States.
He graduated from Forest Lake Academy high school, obtained a BBA from Newbold College, Andrews University in 1987, an MBA from Rollins College in 1990, a DipM in 1992 and a FCIM Fellowship in 1998 from The Chartered Institute of Marketing and in 2020 a PhD in Media Arts Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]
Before working in the motion-picture industry he worked for IBM as their EMEA Vice President for Global Business Intelligence Solutions and was a Business Lecturer for Newbold College.[2]
JC Crissey's filmmaking career is lengthy and eclectic in terms of genre, but is confined to low-budget British films. His credited associations include Blinded, Burning Light, That Samba Thing and Doorways. He was admitted into the British Academy of Film and Television Arts as a Life Member in 2003 for his services to UK independent movie production.[3]
Since 1999 he has been the CEO of London Pictures Limited.[4]
JC Crissey was also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Screen Academy Scotland from 2008 to 2014 and at the Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway University of London from 2010 to 2014. His PhD thesis is titled The UK low-budget film sector during the ‘digital revolution’ between 2000 and 2012: a quantitative assessment of its technological, economic and cultural characteristics.[5]
JC Crissey is a serving Town Councillor for Petersfield Town Council (since 2019) and from 2023 to 2024 Town Mayor of Petersfield.[11] He is also a serving Magistrate in the County of Hampshire.[12]
JC Crissey is married to wife Jacqueline Crissey since 1987 and he has two children.[13]