Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma was born in Newark in 1940, the youngest of the three sons of an orthopaedic surgeon, and grew up in Philadelphia. Gifted in the sciences, as a teenager he won a prize with an electronic calculator and entered Columbia University to study physics; there he made his first short films. A grant obtained by a professor then took him to Sarah Lawrence College, where he gave a start to an unknown actor whom he would later introduce to Martin Scorsese. Hired by a major studio, he left for Hollywood in 1970.

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• CinemaThe UntouchablesBrian De Palma · 1987Cinema