Date of Birth
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1954
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Place of Birth
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Eindhoven
(Netherlands, North Brabant, Kingdom of the Netherlands)
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Nationality
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Netherlands
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Profession
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Screenwriter, Film director, Film Producer
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Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director and producer.
Meyjes moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at the Art Institute of California – San Francisco. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the 1985 film The Color Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker. In 1989 he gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with George Lucas and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño del mono loco.
In 2002 Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max.
He attended the San Francisco Art Institute; there he studied with George Kuchar, James Broughton, and Larry Jordan.
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