David Claessen

Film director

Birthday March 6, 1959

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Haarlem, Netherlands

Age 65 years old

Nationality Netherlands

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David Claessen is a Dutch cinematographer and director.

Claessen attended the Netherlands Film Academy (Nederlandse Filmacademie) in Amsterdam.

1983

In 1983, he shot Haute Mer, directed by French filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky.

1986

In 1986, Claessen moved to the United States where he met Whoopi Goldberg during production of a documentary entitled Who Are They? They married in September 1986 and divorced two years later.

1997

In 1997 Claessen met director Julie Dash.

2000

They have collaborated on four films together: including the award-winning The Rosa Parks Story, Love Song (2000), Brothers of the Borderland (2004), and Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2016).