Robert Flaherty
Directing
February 16, 1884
Died July 23, 1951 (67 years old)
Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
4
Acting Credits
14
Directed
Biography
Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who made the first commercially successful feature-length documentary, Nanook of the North (1922), which solidified his reputation and was never able to be equaled in its success, although he continued 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 ...
