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Louis Clark de Rochemont (January 13, 1899 – December 23, 1978) was an American film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen, the monthly theatrically shown newsreels The March of Time. His brother, Richard, was also a producer and writer on The March of Time .
Louis de Rochemont, the maverick filmmaker and documentarian whose "The Fighting Lady" (1944) won an Oscar, was born in Chelsea. Massachusetts in 1899. He filmed his first newsreel when he was 12 years old and established his reputation making March of Time newsreels in the 1930s.
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Dec 25, 1978 · Louis Charles de Rochemont, the documentary film maker who introduced the “non‐fiction” approach to Hollywood feature‐film production, died Saturday night in a nursing home near his...
Louis de Rochemont - Writer. Producer. Nationality: American. Born: Louis Clark de Rochemont in Chelsea, Massachusetts, 13 January 1899. Education: Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Naval Aviation School; Harvard Naval Cadet School. Military Service: British Military Intelligence, 1916–17; officer in U.S. Navy, 1917–23.
Louis De Rochemont — The Movie Database (TMDB) Biography. He co-founded and was the first director of The March of Time, which added topical issues to newsreels. He also produced feature film documentaries that based dramatic narrative on factual records, including "The House On 92nd Street" (1945), which used real FBI files, "Boomerang!"
Louis Clark de Rochemont (January 13, 1899 – December 23, 1978) was an American film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen, the monthly theatrically shown newsreels The March of Time. His brother, Richard, was also a producer and writer on The March of Time.
Jul 29, 2001 · Louis de Rochemont III, 70, a filmmaker who directed the 1958 wide-screen production “Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich,” died July 11 of complications from diabetes at his home...
