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Robert Flaherty

Robert Flaherty
  • Name: Robert Flaherty
  • Birthday: 1884-02-16
  • Also known as: Robert Joseph Flaherty,R.J. Flaherty,Flaherty,Robert J. Flaherty
  • Place of birth: Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
  • Popularity: 1.663
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 Directions 1929–1968 included him in the... Read More

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Title Release date
Monica in the South Seas   as  Self (archival footage) 2023-11-03
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen   as  Himself (archive footage) 2010-07-07
The Land   as  Narrator (voice) 1942-04-01