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Robert Joseph Flaherty, 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.
Birth Name
Robert Joseph Flaherty
Born
Saturday, 16 February 1884
Died
Monday, 23 July 1951
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Monica in the South Seas | Self | 2023 |
Welcome to the Basement | Self | 2012 |
The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Self | 2011 |
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen | Subject of film / Himself (archive footage) | 2010 |
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran | Self | 1978 |
We, the People | Self - Director | 1948 |
The Land | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1942 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Monica in the South Seas | Self | 2023 |
Welcome to the Basement | Self | 2012 |
The Story of Film: An Odyssey | Self | 2011 |
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen | Subject of film / Himself (archive footage) | 2010 |
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran | Self | 1978 |
We, the People | Self - Director | 1948 |
The Land | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1942 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | 1950 |
Louisiana Story | 1948 |
The Land | 1942 |
Elephant Boy | 1937 |
Man of Aran | 1934 |
The English Potter | 1933 |
Industrial Britain | 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 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | 1950 |
Louisiana Story | 1948 |
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas | 1931 |
Industrial Britain | 1931 |
Twenty-Four-Dollar Island | 1927 |
Moana | 1926 |
Nanook of the North | 1922 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1949 | Oscar | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story | Nominated |