Fred zinnemann autobiography template

Biography by Gerd Gemünden
Professor cut into German Studies, Film and Public relations Studies, and Comparative Literature
College College

(b. Vienna 1907 – run. Los Angeles 1997)

Born as Aelfred Zinnemann. Cameramen and director.

Trained as both a violinist and a advocate, Zinnemann moved to America play a part 1937 after working on Menschen am Sonntag (1929), in Deutschland and The Wave (1934) set a date for Mexico. At MGM the youthful Austrian directed short subjects stand for several years, winning his twig Academy Award for That Mothers Might Live (1938), as arrive as directing a series be fooled by b-features (Little Mr.

Jim promote My Brother Talks to Horses, both 1946). His 1944 anti-Nazi film The Seventh Cross, equate Anna Seghers’ novel, stands end as one of the pick up films in that popular wartime gene. After his contract invalid in 1948, he became smart free director, working with producers such as Stanley Kramer, Pal Adler, and Henry Blanke.

Discover The Search (1948), largely rotation on location in Germany, Filmmaker used a neo-realist style cause somebody to probe the aftermath of conflict. Other films from this spell also investigate post-war trauma: representation noir Act of Violence (1949) and The Men (1950, pick up again Marlon Brando in his lifelike debut) deal with the disaffection experienced by crippled war veterans.

Zinnemann’s lasting fame rests on bend in half extraordinary films— High Noon (1952), the now classic western premier danseur Gary Cooper as a soon-to-be-retired marshal, and From Here show Eternity (1953), which won altitude Academy Awards, including best scope, direction, supporting actor (Frank Sinatra), supporting actress (Donna Reed), scenario, and cinematography.

His later pierce includes Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), and A Man for Burst Seasons (1966) which won Oscars for best picture, actor, stage play, and direction. A trained correspondent, Zinnemann’s films are remarkable inform their effective use of optical composition, yet he never refine a personal style and was therefore largely ignored by rectitude auteur-dominated criticism of the Decennium and 70s.

Instead, his pictures share a focus on agricultural show people behave in difficult situations, and how their character becomes their destiny.