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Robert J. Flaherty

Robert J. Flaherty

Actor, Director, Writer

Born February 16, 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA

Died July 23, 1951

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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 "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

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Filmography

Actor

7

Type

Year

Monica in the South Seas Poster

Monica in the South Seas Feature Film2023Self

A Boatload of Wild Irishmen Poster

A Boatload of Wild Irishmen Documentary2010Subject of film

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran Poster

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran Documentary1978Self

Footlights and Kleiglights TV Series1951Self

We, the People TV Series1948Self - Director

The Land Poster

The Land Short Film1942Narrator

The Last Voyage of Captain Grant TV Movie1938Narrator

Director

15

Type

Year

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Poster

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Documentary1950

Louisiana Story Poster

Louisiana Story Feature Film1948

The Land Poster

The Land Short Film1942

Elephant Boy Poster

Elephant Boy Feature Film1937

Oidhche Sheanchais Poster

Oidhche Sheanchais Short Film1935

Man of Aran Poster

Man of Aran Documentary1934

Art of the English Craftsman Short Film1933

The English Potter Short Film1933

The Glassmakers of England Documentary1933

Industrial Britain Poster

Industrial Britain Short Film1931

White Shadows in the South Seas Poster

White Shadows in the South Seas Feature Film1928

Twenty-Four-Dollar Island Poster

Twenty-Four-Dollar Island Short Film1927

Moana Documentary1926

The Potterymaker Poster

The Potterymaker Documentary1925

Nanook of the North Poster

Nanook of the North Documentary1922

Writer

8

Type

Year

Louisiana Story Poster

Louisiana Story Feature Film1948

It's All True Poster

It's All True Documentary1943

The Land Poster

The Land Short Film1942

The Last Voyage of Captain Grant TV Movie1938

Man of Aran Poster

Man of Aran Documentary1934

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Poster

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Feature Film1931

Moana Documentary1926

Nanook of the North Poster

Nanook of the North Documentary1922

Producer

8

Type

Year

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Poster

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Documentary1950

Louisiana Story Poster

Louisiana Story Feature Film1948

It's All True Poster

It's All True Documentary1943

Industrial Britain Poster

Industrial Britain Short Film1931

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Poster

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Feature Film1931

Twenty-Four-Dollar Island Poster

Twenty-Four-Dollar Island Short Film1927

Moana Documentary1926

Nanook of the North Poster

Nanook of the North Documentary1922

Cinematographer

6

Type

Year

The Land Poster

The Land Short Film1942

Why We Fight Poster

Why We Fight Documentary1942

Man of Aran Poster

Man of Aran Documentary1934

Industrial Britain Poster

Industrial Britain Short Film1931

Moana Documentary1926

Nanook of the North Poster

Nanook of the North Documentary1922

Editor

3

St. Matthew Passion Poster

St. Matthew Passion Documentary1949

Moana Documentary1926

Nanook of the North Poster

Nanook of the North Documentary1922

Thanks

3

Type

Year

The Buskers of Galway Poster

The Buskers of Galway Short Film2019

Toxic Tom Poster

Toxic Tom Documentary2016

A Letter to Freddy Buache Poster

A Letter to Freddy Buache Short Film1982

Other Crew

2

Type

Year

Autodefensa Poster

Autodefensa TV Series2022

The Country Comes to Town Poster

The Country Comes to Town Documentary1933

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