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.

Directed

1. Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970) — Director
2. Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) — Director
3. Mannix (1967) — Director
4. War Hunt (1962) — Director
5. Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969) — Director
6. A Time Out of War (1954) — Director
7. The American West of John Ford (1971) — Director
8. Naked City (1958) — Director
9. The Defenders (1961) — Director
10. Shock Treatment (1964) — Director
11. Crime and Punishment USA (1959) — Director
12. Soul to Soul (1971) — Director
13. One Man's Way (1964) — Director
14. Subject: Narcotics (1951) — Director
15. Computers Are People, Too! (1982) — Director
16. Introduction to Jazz (1951) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Playboy's Penthouse (1959) — Self