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Alan J. Pakula

Alan J. PakulaAKA Alan Jay Pakula

Born: 7-Apr-1928
Birthplace: Bronx, NY
Died: 19-Nov-1998
Location of death: Melville, Long Island, NY
Cause of death: Accident - Automobile [1]

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Film Director

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: All the President's Men


[1] Struck in the head by a seven-foot metal pipe while driving eastbound near Exit 48 on the Long Island Expressway. The pipe crashed through Pakula's windshield apparently after having been kicked up by an unidentified white tractor trailer with red lettering.

Father: (printer)
Wife:
Hope Lange (actress, m. 19-Oct-1963, div. 1971)
Son: Chris Murray (stepson)
Daughter: Patricia Murray (stepdaughter)
Wife: Hannah Cohn Boorstin (m. 17-Feb-1973, sister-in-law of Daniel Boorstin)
Son: Robert Boorstin (stepson, U.S. Treasury Department official)
Son: Louis Boorstin (stepson)
Daughter: Anna Boorstin Brugge (stepdaughter)

    High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
    University: BA, Yale University (1948)

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1950-51
    Polish Ancestry
    Jewish Ancestry

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    The Devil's Own (13-Mar-1997)
    The Pelican Brief (17-Dec-1993)
    Consenting Adults (16-Oct-1992)
    Presumed Innocent (27-Jul-1990)
    See You in the Morning (14-Apr-1989)
    Orphans (11-Sep-1987)
    Dream Lover (21-Feb-1986)
    Sophie's Choice (8-Dec-1982)
    Rollover (11-Dec-1981)
    Starting Over (5-Oct-1979)
    Comes a Horseman (25-Oct-1978)
    All the President's Men (7-Apr-1976)
    The Parallax View (14-Jun-1974)
    Klute (23-Jun-1971)
    The Sterile Cuckoo (22-Oct-1969)



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