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Manhattan, New York, United States. Occupation (s) Film producer. Screenwriter. Years active. 1954-1972. Robert Maurice Fresco (October 18, 1930 – February 14, 2014) was an American film producer and screenwriter. [1] Along with Denis Sanders he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Czechoslovakia 1968.
- Film producer, Screenwriter
- October 18, 1930, Culver City, California, United States
- 1954-1972
- February 14, 2014 (aged 83), Manhattan, New York, United States
Feb 21, 2014 · Robert M. Fresco, an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who began his career as a writer of horror pictures, died on Feb. 14 in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause was cancer, his family said.
Feb 21, 2014 · Robert M. Fresco, a writer of horror films who went on to win a 1969 Oscar for his documentary short “Czechoslovakia 1968,” died in Manhattan of cancer on Feb. 14. He was 83.
Robert M. Fresco. Writer: Czechoslovakia 1918-1968. Robert M. Fresco was born on 18 October 1930 in Culver City, California, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 (1969), Tarantula (1955) and The Monolith Monsters (1957).
- Writer, Director, Producer
- October 18, 1930
- Robert M. Fresco
- February 14, 2014
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003). Taught courses in film, television and communications at Columbia University, Hofstra University, and Ramapo State College. Born in California to a family of Sephardic Jews who had emigrated from Turkey.
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