André Roosevelt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

André Roosevelt

French rugby union player

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1879

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1962

Profession: film producer, rugby union player

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About André Roosevelt

  • Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (April 24, 1879 – July 21, 1962) was a French-born American filmmaker and resort hotel manager of American origin.He was born in Paris to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of U.S.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris.
  • He won a gold medal in rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics with the French team.He married first Adelheid Lange in 1905, then after a divorce, Alice La Fontant in Haiti.
  • Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to Bali in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali's cultural integrity.
  • He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such.
  • In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies.
  • It was released in the United States in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.
  • He was also known for his 1938 film Beyond the Caribbean.
  • He died in July 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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