Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-01-01 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Port Chester, New York, USA
Jon Alpert
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jon Alpert (born c. 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate.
Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan.
In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. He has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.
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Known For
Acting
2017
1995
1989
1974
Production
2025
2019
2016
2010
2008
2007
2006
1998
1994
1989
1978
1974
Directing
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2002
1998
1995
1994
1989
1987
1986
1980
1974
Crew
1998
Editing
1998
1995
Camera
2021
2019
2017
2010
2008
2007
2002
Writing
2017
1995