Louis De Rochemont

Personal Info

Known For

Production

Birthday

1899-01-13

Deathday

1978-12-23

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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).