Francis Thompson (film director), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1908
Date of Death: 26-Dec-2003
Profession: film director
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Francis Thompson (film director)
- Francis Thompson (1908 - December 26, 2003) was an influential American film director, producer, and writer.Thompson was born in 1908 in Titusville, Pennsylvania and commenced his career as a painter and art teacher before he directed his first film, Evolution Of The Skyscraper.He is best known for the films, N.Y., N.Y.
- (1957), To Be Alive! (1964) and the first IMAX film, To Fly in 1976.He won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for To Be Alive! (1964), which he co-directed with Alexander Hammid.
- He was a member of the Directors Guild of America, with a 50-year career in filmmaking, retiring in 1987. Thompson died on December 26, 2003 in New York at the age of 95.
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