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Denis Sanders
New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Sanders (21 January 1929 – 10 December 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performan…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Sanders (21 January 1929 – 10 December 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performances of Robert Redford, George Hamilton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt in the critically acclaimed 1962 film War Hunt. He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968. In 1958 he teamed up again with Terry to adapt Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead. He was born in New York, New York and died in San Diego, California where he was professor and film maker in residence at San Diego State University from a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1982
Computers Are People, Too!
Movie Director
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1979
When Stroker Strikes
Movie Technical Advisor
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1973
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Movie Director
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1971
The American West of John Ford
Movie Director
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1971
Soul to Soul
Movie Director
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1970
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
Movie Director
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1969
Czechoslovakia 1968
Movie Director
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1967
Mannix
TV show Director
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1964
Shock Treatment
Movie Director
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1964
One Man's Way
Movie Director
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1962
War Hunt
Movie Director
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1961
The Defenders
TV show Director
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1959
Crime and Punishment USA
Movie Director
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1959
Playboy's Penthouse
TV show Self
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1958
Naked City
TV show Director
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1958
The Naked and the Dead
Movie Screenplay
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1954
A Time Out of War
Movie Editor
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1951
Subject: Narcotics
Movie Director
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1951
Introduction to Jazz
Movie Director
