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Francis Thompson (January 3, 1908 - December 26, 2003) was a director and writer of films, including the Academy Award winning To Be Alive!.

Early Life
Thompson was born in 1908 in Titusville, Pennsylvania.

Career
His 1957 short film, N.Y., N.Y. won a Cannes Film Festival award in 1959.

To Be Alive!, from 1966, which he co-directed and co-wrote with Alexander Hammid won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects, in 1966.

His documentary, City Out of Wilderness, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1975.

Later Career and Death
Thompson died of pneumonia at the age of 95 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York.

Filmography

 * Williamsburg, Restored (1951) (director)
 * N.Y., N.Y. (1957) (director)
 * The Sand Castle (1961) (special effects consultant)
 * To Be Alive! (1964) (co-director)
 * Moonwalk One (1971) (producer)
 * City Out of Wilderness (1974)