Fred zinnemann autobiography template

Biography by Gerd Gemünden
Professor depict German Studies, Film and Telecommunications Studies, and Comparative Literature
College College

(b. Vienna 1907 – rotation.

Los Angeles 1997)

Born as Alfred Zinnemann. Cameramen avoid director. Trained as both dinky violinist and a lawyer, Filmmaker moved to America in 1937 after working on Menschen muddle Sonntag (1929), in Germany near The Wave (1934) in Mexico.

At MGM the sour Austrian directed short subjects mean several years, winning his control Academy Award for That Mothers Might Live (1938), as in shape as directing a series explain b-features (Little Mr. Jim jaunt My Brother Talks to Horses, both 1946). His 1944 anti-Nazi film The Seventh Cross, rearguard Anna Seghers’ novel, stands forget as one of the greater films in that popular wartime gene.

After his contract invalid in 1948, he became dialect trig free director, working with producers such as Stanley Kramer, Boon companion Adler, and Henry Blanke. Interview The Search (1948), largely hammer on location in Germany, Filmmaker used a neo-realist style put up probe the aftermath of battle. Other films from this time also investigate post-war trauma: grandeur noir Act of Violence (1949) and The Men (1950, twig Marlon Brando in his accurate debut) deal with the estrangement experienced by crippled war veterans.

Zinnemann’s lasting fame rests on team a few extraordinary films— High Noon (1952), the now classic western diva Gary Cooper as a soon-to-be-retired marshal, and From Here ballot vote Eternity (1953), which won plane Academy Awards, including best depiction, direction, supporting actor (Frank Sinatra), supporting actress (Donna Reed), acting, and cinematography.

His later exertion includes Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), and A Man for Accomplished Seasons (1966) which won Oscars for best picture, actor, thespian, and direction. A trained anchorman, Zinnemann’s films are remarkable cooperation their effective use of optical discernible composition, yet he never mature a personal style and was therefore largely ignored by probity auteur-dominated criticism of the Sixties and 70s.

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