Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.
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Name (Latin)
Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.
Date of birth
1918-05-07
Date of death
2017-09-24
Associated country
Switzerland
United States
Occupation
Cinematographers
Motion picture producers and directors
Mountaineers
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 28, 2017(in obituary published Sept. 27: Norman G. Dyhrenfurth; b. Norman Gunther Dyhrenfurth, May 7, 1918, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); his family left for Austria in the 1920s and then settled in Switzerland, where they became citizens, before emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s; he served in the Army during World War II and became a United States citizen; d. Sunday [Sept. 24, 2017], Salzburg, Austria (where he had retired), aged 99; explorer and filmmaker who in 1963 led the first expedition of Americans to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a feat that inspired generations of mountaineers)
- Omnibus. V. vol. 14 [MP] 1957:credits (Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, photographer)
- LC data base, 2-2-89(hdg.: Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.)