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Name | Dith Pran |
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Birth date | September 27, 1942 |
Birth place | Siem Reap, Cambodia |
Death date | March 30, 2008 |
Death place | New Brunswick, New Jersey |
Residence | Woodbridge, New Jersey |
Known for | The Killing Fields |
Employer | New York Times |
Partner | Sydney Schanberg |
Dith Pran (27 September 1942 – 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields (1984). He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor (1940–1996), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
The U.S. Army hired him as a translator but after his ties with the United States were severed, Pran worked with a British film crew and then as a hotel receptionist.
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