Born in Budapest, Hungary. He wrote and directed the 1967 UK feature THE MINI-AFFAIR. Then he turned to documentary films, releasing CENTINELAS DEL SILENCIO / SENTINELS OF SILENCE (1971) which conveyed a spiritual and aesthetic impression of the lost civilizations of Mexico. The original Spanish version was narrated by Ricardo Montalban, and the English version by Orson Welles. In 1975, he released PACIFIC CHALLENGE, a documentary on the six-month, 9,200-mile crossing of the Pacific from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Ballina, N.S.W., Australia, by a group of men in balsa wood rafts. In 1979, he released the documentary THE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH, which illustrated events that are prophesied in the Bible to show that civilization is headed for Doomsday. Since then, he has made three IMAX films and several documentaries, including "The Great Eclipse" (1992 for PBS) about the third longest solar eclipse of the century, filmed in La Paz, Mexico; "The Message" (1996) about Chief Seattle's message on the environment which won several awards including a Cine Golden Eagle; "What Makes Jeffrey Tick" (2001 for Channel 5 in the UK) about the rise and fall of the infamous Lord Jeffrey Archer; and "Clipperton: Isla de La Pasión" ( 2004 for TV ), the turbulent and tragic story of a remote Pacific island owned by France, claimed by Mexico, and named after an English pirate.  Documentary (Shorts) 1971: SENTINELS OF SILENCE - Producer (w. Manuel Arango)  Short Subjects (Live Action) 1971: SENTINELS OF SILENCE - Producer (w. Manuel Arango) 2 nominations, 2 Awards