Date of Birth
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15-July-1925
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Place of Birth
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Evanston
(Cook County, Illinois, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Donn Alan Pennebaker, D.A. Pennabaker, Don Alan Pennebaker, Penny, DA Pennebaker, Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker, D. A. Pennbaker, Don Alan Pennebaker, Don Alan, Donn Alan Pennebaker, Penny
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Profession
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Author, Film director, Film Editor, Cinematographer, Actor, Film Producer
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Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Performing arts and politics are his primary subjects. In 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award or "lifetime Oscar."
Pennebaker has been described as "arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of sixties counterculture."
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