Robert Drew

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-02-15 (90 years old)

Deathday

2014-07-30

Place of Birth

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Robert Drew

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

Production

1960

Primary

as Director

1962

Nehru

as Producer

1957

1957

1971

1960

Primary

as Sound Recordist

1960

Primary

as Editorial Manager

1963

The Chair

as Director

1964

1962

Jane

as Executive Producer

1963

The Chair

as Executive Producer

1961

Aga Khan

as Producer

1963

The Chair

as Cinematography

1960

Yanki No!

as Director

1960

Yanki No!

as Producer

1969

1975

Who's Out There?

as Producer

1960

Primary

as Writer

1961

Adventures on the New Frontier

as Executive Producer

1960

Primary

as Producer

1971

1964

Faces of November

as Executive Producer

1966

Storm Signal

as Director

1962

Susan Starr

as Executive Producer

1974

On the Road with Duke Ellington

as Executive Producer

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