Robert Drew

Robert Drew

1924-02-15 – 2014-07-30 (age 90) Toledo, Ohio, USA
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Biography

Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films are archived in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The moving image collection of Robert Drew is housed at the Academy Film Archive. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of his films, including "Faces of November," "Herself: Indira Gandhi," and "Bravo!/Kathy's Dance". His many awards include an International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award.

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Primary

1960

as Self

The Chair
The Chair

1963

as Correspondent

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Ricky on Leacock

2012

as Self