Robert Flaherty

  • Known for: Director
  • Date of birth: 1884. February 16.
  • Place of birth: 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, althou...

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