Louis De Rochemont
Known For: Production
Date of Birth: January 13, 1899
Day of Death: December 23, 1978 (80 years old)
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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).
