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D A Pennebaker

Director

Born - 15 July 1925, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died - 1 August 2019

Heftily-built American director of (mostly music-oriented) cinema-verite-style documentaries, often in conjunction with his (third) wife Chris Hegedus, who survives him. Output includes Daybreak Express (1953), Opening in Moscow (1959), Jane (1962), Hier Strauss (1965), Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967), Monterey Pop (1968), 1 P.M. (1971), Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973), Energy War (1977), Town Bloody Hall (1979), Rockaby (1983), Jimi Plays Monterey (1986), The War Room (1993), Moon Over Broadway (1997), Down from the Mountain (2000), Kings of Pastry (2009) and Unlocking the Cage (2016), his last. The 'D A' stood for Donn Alan.