Robert Drew
Production · Director · Producer · Sound Recordist
Born Feb 15, 1924 · Toledo, Ohio, USA
Active 1957–2014
Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States.
Filmography
Primary (1960) — Director · Sound Recordist · Editorial Manager · Writer · ProducerCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) — Director · Executive ProducerFor Auction: An American Hero (1986) — Director · ProducerA President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy (2008) — Writer · DirectorOn the Pole: Eddie Sachs (1961) — ProducerFaces of November (1964) — Director · Executive ProducerThe Chair (1963) — Correspondent · Director · Executive Producer · CinematographyABC Close-Up: Yanki, No! (1960) — Producer · DirectorWho's Out There? (1975) — Producer · DirectorStorm Signal (1966) — DirectorJane (1962) — Executive ProducerAdventures on the New Frontier (1961) — Executive ProducerABC Close-Up! (1960) — Producer · Writer · Executive ProducerNehru (1962) — ProducerAmerican Football (1957) — Producer · DirectorThe Sun Ship Game (1971) — Director · ProducerOn the Road with Duke Ellington (1974) — Director · Executive ProducerAga Khan (1961) — ProducerSimon and Garfunkel: Songs of America (1969) — Executive Producer784 Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation (1982) — Producer · WriterThe New Met: Countdown to Curtain (1966) — Director · ProducerSusan Starr (1962) — Executive ProducerDavid — ProducerDavid (1961) — Executive Producer