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Franklin J. Schaffner

American film director (1920–1989).

Born May 30th, 1921 in Tokyo.

Died July 2nd, 1989 at 68 years old in Santa Monica (lung cancer).

Occupations
film director, trade unionist

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir