Denis Sanders

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 masters degree thesis at UCLA and which he coscripted 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 Mailers 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia