George Stevens

George Stevens was born in Oakland in 1904 into a family of stage actors and went on stage as a child. Hired at seventeen as an assistant cameraman at Hal Roach, he became a cameraman and gag writer on the Laurel and Hardy shorts, then directed comedies. During the war he commanded a film unit of the Signal Corps, filmed the landings and the liberation of Dachau, and his images of the camps were used as evidence at the Nuremberg trial; he no longer wanted to make comedies. He received two Oscars for directing and died in California in 1975.

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• CinemaShaneGeorge Stevens · 1953Cinema