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Personal Info
Known For
Production
Born
January 13, 1899
Died
December 23, 1978 (age 79)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
L.C. de Rochement
Louis De Rochemont
Biography
He co-founded and was the first director of The March of Time, which added topical issues to newsreels. He also produced feature film documentaries that based dramatic narrative on factual records, including "The House On 92nd Street" (1945), which used real FBI files, "Boomerang!" (1946), it included a reenactment of an actual murder case and a biography, "Martin Luther" (1953).
