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Denis Sanders 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 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 UCLA 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 Sanders to adapt Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead.
Born
Monday, 21 January 1929
Died
Thursday, 10 December 1987
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Playboy's Penthouse | Self | 1959 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Playboy's Penthouse | Self | 1959 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Computers Are People, Too! | 1982 |
| A Film on Hitchhiking | 1974 |
| Invasion of the Bee Girls | 1973 |
| The American West of John Ford | 1971 |
| Soul to Soul | 1971 |
| Elvis: That's the Way It Is | 1970 |
| Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 | 1969 |
| Mannix | 1967 |
| Shock Treatment | 1964 |
| One Man's Way | 1964 |
| The Great Adventure | 1963 |
| War Hunt | 1962 |
| The Defenders | 1961 |
| Route 66 | 1960 |
| Crime & Punishment, USA | 1959 |
| Naked City | 1958 |
| A Time Out of War | 1954 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Computers Are People, Too! | 1982 |
| A Film on Hitchhiking | 1974 |
| Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 | 1969 |
| War Hunt | 1962 |
| A Time Out of War | 1954 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1970 | Oscar | Best Documentary, Short Subjects | Won |
| 1955 | Oscar | Best Short Subject, Two-reel | Won |
