Robert Drew
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
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- 1924-02-15 · Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Died
- 2014-07-30
Known for
- Primary (1960) — Self
- Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) — Director
- Faces of November (1964) — Director
- Adventures on the New Frontier (1961) — Executive Producer
- ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No! (1960) — Director
- Who's Out There? (1975) — Producer
- The Chair (1963) — Correspondent
- Jane (1962) — Executive Producer
- ABC Close-Up! (1960) — Writer
- Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance (2016) — Self
- On the Road with Duke Ellington (1974) — Director
- For Auction: An American Hero (1986) — Director
- A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy (2008) — Writer
- On the Pole: Eddie Sachs (1961) — Producer
- Storm Signal (1966) — Director
- Ricky on Leacock (2012) — Self