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French rugby union player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (April 24, 1879 – July 21, 1962) was a French-born American filmmaker and resort hotel manager of American origin.[1]
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's rugby union | ||
Representing  France | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1900 Paris | Team competition |
He was born in Paris to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris.[2] He won a gold medal in rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics with the French team.[3] He was a member of The Explorers Club like his cousin Theodore Roosevelt.[4]
He married first Adelheid Lange in 1905, then after a divorce, Alice La Fontant in Haiti. Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to Bali in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali's cultural integrity.[5] He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies. It was released in the United States in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.[5] He was also known for his 1938 film Beyond the Caribbean. He died in July 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.[6]
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