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Filmmaker · United States, England

Fred Zinnemann

Died in 1997

Fred Zinnemann was born in 1907 in Rzeszów, then in Austria-Hungary, the son of a doctor. A law graduate of Vienna, he learned camera work at a school in Paris and arrived in Hollywood in 1929, where he was an extra in a war film before making documentary short films for MGM. His parents perished in the Shoah. He directed some twenty feature films and received four Oscars, two of them for directing. He died in London in 1997.

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