Alex Grasshoff
Television producer, Film director
1928 – 2008
Who was Alex Grasshoff?
Alexander Grasshoff was an American documentary filmmaker and director who received 3 Oscars nominations.
Along with fellow producer Robert Cohn, he is possibly best known for writing and directing the documentary Young Americans, won an Academy Award for best feature documentary in April 1969. However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences soon found out the film had been shown first in October 1967, thus mading it ineligible for a 1968 award and the Oscar status was revoked. Grasshoff, who reportedly slept with the Oscar on the first night, also directed Academy Award-winning films The Really Big Family and Journey to the Outer Limits. He also directed the award-winning The Wave, based on Ron Jones' The Third Wave experiment, and Future Shock, based on Alvin Toffler's book and hosted by Orson Welles.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1928
Boston - Also known as
- Alex Grassholf
- Alex Grashoff
- Alexander Grasshof
- Alexander Grasshoff
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Madilyn Clark Grasshoff
(1970 - 2008/04/05)
- Madilyn Clark Grasshoff
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Southern California
- Died
- Apr 5, 2008
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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