Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946 in New York City) known simply as Oliver Stone is an Academy Award-winning American film director.

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Stone's father was Jewish and his mother a Roman Catholic of French birth, and he was raised an Episcopalian as a compromise. He attended The Hill School, Yale and the New York University.

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His parents divorced when he was in high school, and only then did Stone learn of his father's extramarital affairs with the wives of several family friends. Stone attended Yale a year before dropping out. He then taught English at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam for six months after which he worked as a merchant marine, and traveled to Oregon and Mexico, before returning to Yale, where he dropped out a second time.

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