Name Richard Rochemont Role Filmmaker | Siblings Louis de Rochemont Ex-spouse Helen Bentley Bogart | |
Movies A Chance to Live, The Golden Twenties, Atomic Power Awards Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Similar People Louis de Rochemont, Frederick Lewis Allen, Vilma Banky, Robert Q Lewis, Elmer Davis | ||
The First Exact Academy Awards Tie: 1950 Oscars
Richard de Rochemont (December 13, 1903 – August 2, 1982) was an American documentary filmmaker in the late 1940s, who worked on the March of Time newsreel series.
He produced a series of shorts which covered such subjects as World War II, the 1920s, and the Vatican. He produced Crusade in Europe (1949), the very first documentary series produced for television, based on the book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and produced by Time Inc. and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television. He also won a Best Documentary Short Academy Award for A Chance to Live (1949).
He was the brother of documentary filmmaker and feature film producer Louis de Rochemont.
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