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FILM DIRECTOR

Pierre Schoendoerffer

1928 - 2012

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Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 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 95,715 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Schoendoerffer is the 706th most popular film director (down from 696th in 2019), the 3,394th most popular biography from France (down from 3,228th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 706 out of 1,581. Before him are Claude Miller, Jeannot Szwarc, Bruce Beresford, Timur Bekmambetov, Tsai Ming-liang, and Henri Decoin. After him are Jan Němec, Richard Linklater, Maurice Tourneur, William Cameron Menzies, Raoul Peck, and Andrey Zvyagintsev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 272. Before him are Carl Dahlhaus, William Klein, Alexander Gomelsky, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Umberto Maglioli, and Julien Guiomar. After him are Leon Fleisher, Estelle Harris, Paul Johnson, José Bonaparte, Peter Shirayanagi, and Natalie Zemon Davis. Among people deceased in 2012, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 189. Before him are Jon Finch, Michel Duchaussoy, Bal Thackeray, Mustafa Ould Salek, Pierre Mondy, and Claude Miller. After him are Txillardegi, Dom Mintoff, Kurt Adolff, Assef Shawkat, Simeon ten Holt, and Marvin Hamlisch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 3,394 out of 6,011. Before him are Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Henri Decoin (1890), Julien Guiomar (1928), Paul César Helleu (1859), and Albert Taillandier (1879). After him are Bernard Thévenet (1948), Casimir Pierre Périer (1777), Joseph Duplessis (1725), Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707), Edwige Feuillère (1907), and Jean Stablinski (1932).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Pierre Schoendoerffer ranks 95. Before him are Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927), Raoul Coutard (1924), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), and Henri Decoin (1890). After him are Maurice Tourneur (1876), Michel Audiard (1920), Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Jean Rollin (1938), Michel Deville (1931), and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932).

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Filmography

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