Robert J. Flaherty
Robert J. Flaherty was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, United States on February 16th, 1884 and is the Director. At the age of 67, Robert J. Flaherty biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Joseph Flaherty (1984 – 1951), an American filmmaker who produced and directed Nanook of the North (1922), a first commercially successful feature-length documentary film.
Despite surviving success in this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), shot in Ireland's Aran Islands, the film made his name and no one in his later life adequately matched it's success, although Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands, Man of Aran (1934).
Flaherty is regarded as the "father" of both the documentary and ethnographic film. Flaherty was married to writer Frances H. Flaherty from 1914 to his death in 1951.
Frances has worked on several of her husband's films and has been nominated for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story (1948).
Early life
Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty (an Irish Protestant) and Susan Klockner (a German Catholic).
He inherited an inherent curiosity for people from other cultures as a result of his father's work as an iron ore explorer. Flaherty was a well-known still-photographer in Toronto. The creation of his critically acclaimed Nanook of the North resulted from his portraits of American Indians and wild life during his travels. He wanted to create a new type of film due to his curiosity and passions in these individuals.
He married Frances Hubbard, his fiancée, in 1914. Hubbard was born into a wealthy family, with her father being a respected geologist. Hubbard, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, studied music and poetry in Paris and served as the secretary of the local Suffragette Society. Frances Flaherty's marriage made her a key role in Robert's film success. Frances has played the part of director and produced and distributed her husband's films, as well as securing governmental film contracts for England.
In 1909, he shared tales about information he received from an Inuk man named George Weetaltuk, grandfather of Mini Aodla Freeman. When visiting Weetaltuk in search of iron ore, Flaherty said he met him. Flaherty's Weetaltuk tale gave a detailed map of the Inuit area and shared details about the bay that Weetaltuk had discovered. In his book, My Eskimo Friends: "Nanook of the North," George Weetaltuk's writings about him will be published.
Awards
- BAFTA presents the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary.
- Academy Award Oscar - Best Documentary Feature 1950 - The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- 1913, Fellow, Royal Geographical Society