Denis Sanders

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-01-21

Deathday 1987-12-10 (58 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Denis Sanders

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

1971
Soul to Soul

as Director

1969
1967
Mannix

as Director

1964
Shock Treatment

as Director

1964
One Man's Way

as Director

1962
War Hunt

as Director

1961
The Defenders

as Director

1959
1958
Naked City

as Director

1954
A Time Out of War

as Director

1951
Subject: Narcotics

as Director

1951

Writer

1958
1954
1951

Producer

1962
War Hunt

as Producer

1954
A Time Out of War

as Producer

Editor

1954

Actor