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Date of Birth
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05-May-1928
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Place of Birth
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Chamalières
(Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme, France)
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Nationality
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France
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Also know as
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Pierre Schœndœrffer
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Profession
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Novelist, Film Director, Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist, Soldier, Teacher, Voice Actor, Veteran
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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 Académie 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.
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