Robert Flaherty
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1884-02-16 (67 years old)
Deathday
1951-07-23
Place of Birth
Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
Also known As
Robert Joseph Flaherty
R.J. Flaherty
Flaherty
Robert J. Flaherty
Robert Flaherty
Biography
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...
Acting
2023
as Self (archival footage)
2010
as Himself (archive footage)
1942
as Narrator (voice)
Production
1931
as Producer
1922
as Producer
1922
as Editor
1922
as Director
1922
as Director of Photography
1937
as Director
1934
as Director
1948
as Director
1926
as Director
1931
as Director
1927
as Director
1922
as Writer
1935
as Director of Photography
1942
as Writer
1942
as Director of Photography
1948
as Screenplay
1942
as Director
1927
as Producer
1931
as Producer
1916
as Director
1928
as Co-Director
1933
as Director
1943
as Director of Photography
1935
as Director
1938
as Director
1938
as Producer
1934
as Writer
1934
as Director of Photography
1926
as Editor
1926
as Producer
1926
as Screenplay
1926
as Director of Photography
1925
as Director
1927
as Editor
1948
as Producer
1949
as Director
1943
as Director of Photography
1927
as Director of Photography
1931
as Director of Photography
1931
as Screenplay
1946
as Cinematography
1983
as In Memory Of
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