Charles Eli Guggenheim was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter.
13 Facts About Charles Guggenheim
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Charles Guggenheim was the most honored documentary filmmaker in the academy history, winning four Oscars from twelve nominations.
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Charles Guggenheim was recruited to St Louis, Missouri, to serve as director of one of the first public television stations in the country, KETC.
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In 1959, the Friends of the City Art Museum of Saint Louis commissioned Charles Guggenheim to write and direct a documentary in celebration of the museum's 50th anniversary.
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Charles Guggenheim received his first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for 1964's Nine from Little Rock, about the desegregation effort in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
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Storck and Charles Guggenheim collaborated on a well-received political film for Pennsylvania governor Milton Shapp in 1966.
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That year, Charles Guggenheim moved his company and his family to Washington, DC, where he became a media advisor to many Democratic political figures.
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Charles Guggenheim worked on four presidential campaigns and hundreds of gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns.
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Charles Guggenheim directed several documentary films for the US Information Agency.
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Kennedy was assassinated, Charles Guggenheim was asked by the Kennedy family to put together a tribute for the 1968 Chicago Convention.
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Charles Guggenheim finished the film six weeks before his death in October 2002 from pancreatic cancer.
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Charles Guggenheim is recognized with a star on the St Louis Walk of Fame.
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The moving image collection of Charles Guggenheim is held at the Academy Film Archive.