Biography
Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884 β 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 1929β1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Filmography
all 22
Movies 22
Director 17
self 2
Narrator 1
Writer 1
Monica in the South Seas (2023)
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (2010)
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
Guernica (1949)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943)
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943)
Prelude to War (1942)
The Land (1942)
Elephant Boy (1937)
A Night of Storytelling (1935)
Man of Aran (1934)
The English Potter (1933)
Industrial Britain (1931)
Tabu (1931)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1927)
Moana (1926)
The Pottery Maker (1925)
Nanook of the North (1922)
The Eskimo (1916)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1884-02-16
Deathday1951-07-23 (67 years old)
Birth PlaceIron Mountain, United States of America
ChildrenMonica Flaherty Frassetto
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsRobert Joseph Flaherty, R.J. Flaherty, Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
AwardsFellow of the Royal Geographical Society
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