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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Schoendoerffer has received more than 105,243 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Schoendoerffer is the 803rd most popular film director (down from 704th in 2019), the 3,851st most popular biography from France (down from 3,380th in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 803 out of 2,041. Before him are Arturo Ripstein, George Sidney, Atom Egoyan, Karen Shakhnazarov, Eldar Shengelaia, and Marlen Khutsiev. After him are Luis Trenker, Russell Mulcahy, Alain Cavalier, Edgar G. Ulmer, Claude Miller, and Edmund Goulding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 319. Before him are Jacques Dupont, Peter Carsten, Péter Bacsó, Leonid Bronevoy, Bella Davidovich, and Eugenio Monti. After him are Peter Shirayanagi, Karl Josef Becker, Paul Arizin, Ann Blyth, Abdul Sattar Edhi, and Mary Daly. Among people deceased in 2012, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 221. Before him are Sergio Toppi, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, John Hick, Simin Daneshvar, Barry Commoner, and Jim Marshall. After him are Humayun Ahmed, Takeshi Urata, Claude Miller, Ulu Grosbard, Paul Pietsch, and Xenia Stad-de Jong.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 3,851 out of 6,770. Before him are Célestine Galli-Marié (1840), Marcel Domingo (1924), Pierre Jean Jouve (1887), Nicolas Trigault (1577), Jakob Abbadie (1654), and Maurice Farman (1877). After him are Tonie Marshall (1951), Luc-Olivier Merson (1846), Jean Bouin (1888), Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), and Valérie Lemercier (1964).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 101. Before him are Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927), Jacques Rozier (1926), Paul Grimault (1905), Maurice Tourneur (1876), Albert Capellani (1874), and Michel Audiard (1920). After him are Alain Cavalier (1931), Claude Miller (1942), Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), Henri Decoin (1890), Raoul Coutard (1924), and Raymond Bernard (1891).

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