Description
Pierre Schoendoerffer 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 Acad�mie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007.
In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for 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.
Born
May 5th, 1928 in Chamalières / Died: Mar 14th, 2012
Films
Last Changes
2013/02/28
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2012/05/14
Address Removed: Available to members only
2010/05/05
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