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  • BIRTH 21/01/1929
  • DEATH 10/12/1987
  • Country United States
  • DIRECTOR 8
  • SCRIPT 2
  • PRODUCTION 2

Denis Sanders

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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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Denis Sanders

Director (8)

Mannix
Mannix
(1 episode)
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment
War Hunt
War Hunt
Crime and Punishment USA
Crime and Punishment USA
A Time Out of War
A Time Out of War
Soul to Soul
Soul to Soul
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
The Defenders
The Defenders
(1 episode)

Script (2)

A Time Out of War
A Time Out of War
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead

Production (2)

War Hunt
War Hunt
A Time Out of War
A Time Out of War