Fred Zinnemann

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Name: Fred Zinnemann
Date of Issue: 29 April 2009
Country: Austria
Denominations:0.55 EUR

Fred Zinnemann was born in Vienna on April 29, 1907. As a child, he was a close friend of Billy Wilder, who like himself was later to become a famous Hollywood director. After finishing school in 1925, Zinnemann initially began to study law before taking a course in camera work at the Paris Ecole Technique de Photographie et de Cinématographie two years later. After a stay in Berlin, where he was employed as a camera assistant, working together with such stars as Marlene Dietrich, he went to Hollywood.