
Robert Drew
Robert Lincoln Drew
Birth Date
2/15/1924 (Age 90)Birth Place
Toledo, Ohio, USADeath Date
7/30/2014Departments
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
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John F. Kennedy
3 films together

Richard Leacock
3 films together

Hubert H. Humphrey
3 films together

Albert Maysles
3 films together

Jacqueline Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy
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