Pierre Schoendoerffer
Directing
May 5, 1928
Died March 14, 2012 (83 years old)
Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France
8
Acting Credits
12
Directed
Biography
Pierre Schoendoerffer (5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966. Pierre Scho...
