Robert Drew

from Toledo, Ohio, USA

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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.

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Timeline

2012Aged 88

2008Aged 84

  • Poster for A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy

    Writer

1975Aged 51

  • Poster for Who's Out There?

    Director

1974Aged 50

1971Aged 47

1969Aged 45

  • Poster for Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America

    Executive Producer

1966Aged 42

  • Poster for Storm Signal

    Director

  • Poster for The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

    Producer

1964Aged 40

  • Poster for Faces of November

    Executive Producer

1963Aged 39

  • Poster for The Chair

    Correspondent

  • Poster for Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

    Executive Producer

1962Aged 38

  • Poster for Susan Starr

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Nehru

    Producer

  • Poster for Jane

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Blackie

    Executive Producer

1961Aged 37

  • Poster for David

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Adventures on the New Frontier

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    Producer

  • Aga Khan

    Producer

1960Aged 36

  • Poster for Primary

    Self

  • Poster for ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!

    Director

1957Aged 33

Year unknown