Pierre Boulle
Birthday: 20 February 1912, Avignon, Vaucluse, France
Birth Name: Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle
Pierre Boulle was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.He was an engineer servi ...Show More
[describing his training for the British SOE in WWII] Serious gentlemen taught us the art of blowing Show more
[describing his training for the British SOE in WWII] Serious gentlemen taught us the art of blowing up a bridge, attaching explosives to the side of a ship, derailing a train, as well as that of dispatching to the next world - as silently as possible - a night-time guard. Hide
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