Robert Gardner
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-11-05 (89 years old)
Deathday
2014-06-21
Place of Birth
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
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Robert Gardner
Biography
Robert Gardner was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1957 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of non-fiction film. He is an internationally renowned filmmaker and author whose works have entered the permanent canon of non-fiction filmmaking. Some of his most prominent films include Dead Birds (1964), a lyric account of the Dugum Dani, a Stone Age society at one time living an isolated existence in the Highlands of the former Netherlands New Guinea (Gardner was the leader of the Peabody Museum-sponsored expedition to study the Dani in 1961-62); Rivers of Sand (1974), a social commentary on the Hamar p...
Acting
1960
as Self - Host
1979
as Narrator
1963
as Narrator
1972
as Himself
2000
as Himself
1951
as Narrator
1985
as Narrator
1985
as Narrator
Production
1974
as Director
1986
as Director
1963
as Director
1976
as Director
1952
as Director
1951
as Director
1980
as Editor
1970
as Producer
1965
as Director
1993
as Director
1957
as Director
1980
as Director
1980
as Cinematography
1988
as Director
1985
as Director
1973
as Director
1972
as Director
1981
as Executive Producer
1963
as Cinematography
1963
as Writer
1963
as Editor
1970
as Additional Photography
1973
as Cinematography
1973
as Producer
1988
as Cinematography
1974
as Editor
1986
as Editor
1974
as Writer
1986
as Cinematography
1974
as Cinematography
1986
as Producer
2000
as Cinematography
2013
as Director
2013
as Cinematography
2013
as Editor
2022
as Additional Photography
2000
as Director
1980
as Sound Recordist
1988
as Writer
1988
as Editor
1951
as Producer
2000
as Director
1997
as Director
1998
as Director
1997
as Director
1973
as Director
1973
as Director
1973
as Director
1958
as Director
1968
as Director
1966
as Director
1966
as Director
1968
as Director
1973
as Director
1978
as Director
1985
as Director
1985
as Director
1988
as Director
1997
as Director
2010
as Director
2010
as Director
1966
as Director
1965
as Producer
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