Denis Sanders

from New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Denis Sanders (21 January 1929 – 10 December 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performances of Robert Redford, George Hamilton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt in the critically acclaimed 1962 film War Hunt. He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968.

In 1958 he teamed up again with Terry to adapt Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead.

He was born in New York, New York and died in San Diego, California where he was professor and film maker in residence at San Diego State University from a heart attack.

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Timeline

1982Aged 53

  • Poster for Computers Are People, Too!

    Director

1979Aged 50

  • Poster for When Stroker Strikes

    Technical Advisor

1973Aged 44

  • Poster for Invasion of the Bee Girls

    Director

1971Aged 42

  • Poster for Soul to Soul

    Director

  • Poster for The American West of John Ford

    Director

1970Aged 41

  • Poster for Elvis: That's the Way It Is

    Director

1969Aged 40

  • Poster for Czechoslovakia 1968

    Director

1964Aged 35

  • Poster for One Man's Way

    Director

  • Poster for Shock Treatment

    Director

1962Aged 33

  • Poster for War Hunt

    Producer

1959Aged 30

  • Poster for Crime and Punishment USA

    Director

1958Aged 29

  • Poster for The Naked and the Dead

    Screenplay

1954Aged 25

  • Poster for A Time Out of War

    Producer

1951Aged 22