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Robert Flaherty

Director

Robert Flaherty

Directing
1928 — 1948 · 3 films
Lived
16 February 1884 — d. 1951
From
Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA

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.

Career Signature

How Robert Flaherty’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.