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Pierre Boulle

Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963).

David Lean made The Bridge over the River Kwai into a motion picture that won several 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. (He gave what is said to be the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word "Merci".) Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Pierre Boulle was neither a Socialist nor a Communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984.

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French novelist (1912–1994)

Born 20 February 1912
Died 30 January 1994

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    First published in 1989 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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French novelist (1912–1994)

Born 20 February 1912
Died 30 January 1994
Subjects
Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Falkland Islands War, 1982, Fiction, general, Whales, Crusades, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, science fiction, general, French Personal narratives, French Short stories, French fiction, Personal narratives, French, Short stories, French, Translations into English, Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship), Apes, Apparitions, Big bang theory, Burma, Burma-Siam Railroad, Burma-Siam Railroad in fiction, Children's fiction, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Fanaticism, Ficción
Places
Southeast Asia, France
People
Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor (1194-1250)
Time
Sixth, 1228-1229, 2500

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Alternative names

  • Pierre (translated from the French by Patricia Wolf Boulle
  • Boulle Pierre
  • BOULLE Pierre
  • Boulle, Pierre,
  • Boulle. Pierre ( Translated from the French by Xan Fielding)
  • Пьер Буль

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