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Wolfgang Petersen (14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022) was a German filmmaker. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000 ...
Wolfgang Petersen. Director: Das Boot. A controversial film maker, Wolfgang Petersen has at once been lauded for his professionalism and attention to detail and decried for turning out a string of standard commercial Hollywood blockbusters. The son of a naval officer, Petersen held a lifelong fascination with the sea and naval subjects.
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- Emden, Germany
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Mini Bio. A controversial film maker, Wolfgang Petersen has at once been lauded for his professionalism and attention to detail and decried for turning out a string of standard commercial Hollywood blockbusters. The son of a naval officer, Petersen held a lifelong fascination with the sea and naval subjects.
- March 14, 1941
- August 12, 2022
Aug 16, 2022 · Wolfgang Petersen was born on March 14, 1941, in Emden, in Northern Germany. His father was a naval lieutenant in World War II who later worked for a shipping company in Hamburg. Growing up in...
Aug 19, 2022 · He was born in Emden, a German port town near the Dutch border. The son of a naval officer who later worked for a shipping company in Hamburg, Wolfgang was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des...
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Aug 17, 2022 · Getty Images. Petersen directed Harrison Ford in Air Force One. Born in Emden in 1941, Petersen scored his first major success with World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot, which earned him...
Aug 16, 2022 · Petersen, born in 1941, recalled as a child running alongside American ships as they threw down food. In the confusion of postwar Germany, Petersen — who started out in theater before attending Berlin’s Film and Television Academy in the late 1960s — gravitated toward Hollywood films with clear clashes of good and evil.
