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Alexander Grasshoff

Film Director / Screenwriter | * 12/10/1928 († 79, 04/05/2008) | Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
Alexander Grasshoff (December 10, 1928 – April 5, 2008) was an American documentary filmmaker and director who received three Oscar nominations. Along with fellow producer Robert Cohn, he is perhaps best known for writing and directing the documentary Young Americans, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature during the 1969 ceremony. However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences soon found out the film had been shown first in October 1967, thus making it ineligible for a 1968 award and the Oscar was revoked. (This marks the only time, as of 2022, where an Academy Award was first awarded and then revoked.) Grasshoff, who reportedly slept with the Oscar on the first night, also directed Academy Award-nominated films The Really Big Family (1966) and Journey to the Outer Limits (1973). He also directed the award-winning The Wave (1981), based on Ron Jones' The Third Wave experiment, and ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Awards & Nominations for Alexander Grasshoff

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 3x Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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Movies with Alexander Grasshoff as Actor(1)

Movies with Alexander Grasshoff as Crew(16)

Directing/Director1984 Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Directing/Director1984 A Billion for Boris
Directing/Director1981 The Wave
Directing/Director1978 Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
Directing/Director1977 The Last Dinosaur
Directing/Director1976 Crackle of Death
Directing/Director1973 Journey to the Outer Limits
Production/Producer1973 Journey to the Outer Limits
Directing/Director1972 Future Shock
Directing/Director1972 Wacky Taxi
Directing/Director1967 Young Americans
Production/Producer1967 Young Americans
Directing/Director1966 The Really Big Family
Directing/Director1960 The Jailbreakers
Writing/Screenplay1960 The Jailbreakers

TV Shows/Series with Alexander Grasshoff as Crew(2)

Directing/Director1974 The Rockford Files
Directing/Director1974 The Night Stalker

Full Name: Alexander Grasshoff
Born: Monday, 12/10 1928 (December) in Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 04/05 2008 (April) in Los Angeles (aged: 79)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Other names for Alexander Grasshoff (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Alex Gasshoff"
"Alex Grashoff"
"Alex Grasshoff"
"Alex Grassholf"
Alexander Grasshoff frequently works together with these people:
Byron Morrow (6x, Actor)
Joe E. Tata (6x, Actor)
Bruce Tuthill (6x, Actor)
Ken Swofford (5x, Actor)
Pepper Martin (5x, Actor)
Gerald McRaney (4x, Actor)
Robert Webber (4x, Actor)
Mills Watson (4x, Actor)
Eric Server (4x, Actor)
Walter Brooke (4x, Actor)
David Chase (4x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:291073, Added: 08/11/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024