Louis De Rochemont

Louis De Rochemont

Born

January 13, 1899

Died

December 23, 1978 (79 years old)

Known For

Production

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).