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person_profile-Robert Flaherty

Robert Flaherty Died at age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Robert Flaherty

Date of Birth:

Feb 16, 1884

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jul 23, 1951

Biography of

Robert Flaherty

    Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the "father" of both the documentary and the ethnographic film. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

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Robert Flaherty

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Filmography of

Robert Flaherty

Found 8 Movies in total

... 1948

The Land

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1942

... 1938

... 1937

... 1934

... 1928

Moana

Editor

... 1926

... 1922