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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Movies (15)
Computers Are People, Too!
1982 · Director
When Stroker Strikes
1979 · Technical Advisor
Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973 · Director
The American West of John Ford
1971 · Director
Soul to Soul
1971 · Director
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
1970 · Director
Czechoslovakia 1968
1969 · Director
Shock Treatment
1964 · Director
One Man's Way
1964 · Director
War Hunt
1962 · Director, Producer
Crime and Punishment USA
1959 · Director
The Naked and the Dead
1958 · Screenplay
A Time Out of War
1954 · Editor, Producer, Writer, Director
Subject: Narcotics
1951 · Director
Introduction to Jazz
1951 · Director, Writer
