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Robert Drew

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 1420

IMDb ID: nm0237707

Known for: Production

Born: February 15, 1924

Died: July 30, 2014

Age: 90

Place of birth: Toledo, Ohio, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2008

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 6.68

Wikidata: Q2057633

Also known as

Robert Lincoln Drew

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Director (6)Executive Producer (5)Producer (4)Writer (2)

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. Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license

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