Pierre Schoendoerffer
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-05-05 (84 years old)
Deathday
2012-03-14
Place of Birth
Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Also known As
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
Biography
Pierre Schoendoerffer (5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966. Pierre Schoendoerffer was born in Chamalières of a French Alsatian Protestant family. As Alsace was a territory contested and annexed in the 17th, 19th and 20th ...
Acting
Production
1982
as Director
1966
as Director
1989
as Novel
1965
as Director
1967
as Director
2003
as Writer
2003
as Director
1992
as Director
1977
as Director
1955
as Camera Operator
1977
as Novel
1977
as Screenplay
1967
as Producer
1958
as Screenplay
1967
as Writer
1959
as Director
1992
as Producer
1958
as Director
1965
as Screenplay
1965
as Novel
1961
as Director
1966
as Dialogue
1966
as Screenplay
1992
as Screenplay
1959
as Director
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