Oliver Stone
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09/14/1946
New York, NY |
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| Dropped out of Yale University after one year. |
| Made his feature directing debut with the 1974 horror movie Seizure. |
| Studied film with Martin Scorsese at NYU. |
| Enlisted in the Army and served in Vietnam from 1967-68, earning a Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster and a Bronze Star. |
| Rose to prominence in 1986 with the acclaimed war dramas Salvador and Platoon. |
| At age 5, he started writing plays for his cousins to perform; began composing stories at 7; and started penning a book about his family at 9. |
| Taught English at a Saigon school before the Vietnam War. |
