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Robert Flaherty
Directing
16 Feb 1884
† 23 Jul 1951
Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
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 ...
Also Known As
Robert Joseph Flaherty, R.J. Flaherty, Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
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