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Wes Craven
Wes Craven · Bob Bekian from Thousand Oaks Ca., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Wes Craven

1939 – 2015 · aged 76

American filmmaker (1939–2015)

Born
2 Aug 1939 · Cleveland
Died
30 Aug 2015 · Los Angeles

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 2 Aug 1939BornBorn in Cleveland
  2. 30 Aug 2015DiedDied in Los Angeles

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1939 – 2015).

  1. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  2. 1939 – 1945World War II
  3. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  4. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  5. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  6. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  7. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  8. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  9. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  10. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  12. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  13. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  15. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  16. 1956Suez Crisis
  17. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  19. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  23. 1968Prague Spring
  24. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  25. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  26. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  27. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  29. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  30. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  31. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  32. 1985Schengen Agreement
  33. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  34. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  35. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  37. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  39. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan

Biography

Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre.

Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–present), writing and directing the first film, co-writing and producing the third, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). He directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), the horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Music of the Heart (1999).

Craven received several accolades across his career, which includes a Scream Award, a Sitges Film Festival Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and nominations for a Saturn Award. In 1995, he was honored by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films with the Life Career Award, for his accomplishments in the horror genre. In 2012, the New York City Horror Film Festival awarded Craven the Lifetime Achievement Award.

On August 30, 2015, aged 76, Craven died of a brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles.

Text from the Wikipedia article Wes Craven, CC BY-SA 4.0

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