John Marshall

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-11-12 (73 years old)

Deathday

2005-04-22

Place of Birth

Massachusetts, USA

John Marshall

Biography

John Kennedy Marshall (November 12, 1932 – April 22, 2005) was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Ju/'hoansi (also called the !Kung Bushmen). Marshall first traveled to the Kalahari Desert and met the Ju/'hoansi of the Nyae Nyae area in 1949 on a trip initiated by his father. Throughout the 1950s and 1960's members of the Marshall family returned to the Kalahari Desert numerous times to conduct an ethnographic study of the Ju/'hoansi. From 1950-1958 Marshall filmed the hunting and gathering life of the Ju/'hoansi. His first edited film, The Hunters, was...

Acting

1957

The Hunters

as Narrator

Production

1969

1957

The Hunters

as Director

1967

Titicut Follies

as Director of Photography

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First Film

as Director of Photography

1957

The Hunters

as Director of Photography

1957

The Hunters

as Editor

1972

1961

A Group of Women

as Director

1962

1972

901/904

as Director

1973

After the Game

as Director

1973

The Informant

as Director

1973

1973

Two Brothers

as Director

1971

Vagrant Woman

as Director

1973

Wrong Kid

as Director

1973

1970

The Lion Game

as Director

1970

The Lion Game

as Camera Operator

1974

Baobab Play

as Director

1972

Debe's Tantrum

as Director

1973

Men Bathing

as Director

1974

The Meat Fight

as Director

1972

1972

The Wasp Nest

as Director

1971

Bitter Melons

as Director

1971

Three Domestics

as Director

1978

If It Fits

as Director

1981

N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

as Director of Photography

1968

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