FILM DIRECTOR

Pierre Schoendoerffer

1928 - 2012

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Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer, pronounced [pjɛʁ ʃœ̃dœʁfɛʁ]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Schoendoerffer is the 741st most popular film director (up from 803rd in 2019), the 3,728th most popular biography from France (up from 3,850th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 741 out of 2,041. Before him are Bryan Singer, James Wan, Gavin O'Connor, Jaromil Jireš, B. R. Chopra, and Mario Salieri. After him are Tran Anh Hung, Ivan Passer, Elmar Klos, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Jack Arnold, and Peter Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 305. Before him are Eve Meyer, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Jürgen Moser, Eunice Gayson, Anna Kolesárová, and Charles David Keeling. After him are William Martínez, Milka Babović, Danuta Siedzikówna, Qian Qichen, Allen Stack, and Dick Miller. Among people deceased in 2012, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 214. Before him are Andy Griffith, Jon Finch, Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, Ċensu Tabone, Simin Daneshvar, and Ann Curtis. After him are Georgi Lozanov, Jack Taylor, James Farentino, Peter Carsten, Émile Allais, and Francisco Xavier do Amaral.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 3,728 out of 6,770. Before him are Catherine Frot (1956), Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), Madeleine Renaud (1900), Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855), Roger Ducret (1888), and Édouard Lartet (1801). After him are Gérard Lenorman (1945), Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694), Maurice Paléologue (1859), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Frédéric Vasseur (1968), and Béatrice Dalle (1964).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 99. Before him are Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Georges Franju (1912), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Bruno Nuytten (1945), and Benoît Jacquot (1947). After him are Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927), André Roosevelt (1879), Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), Gérard Pirès (1942), and Henri Decoin (1890).

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