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R.J. Flaherty taking a movie, Port Harrison, QC, 1920-21 Robert Joseph Flaherty, FRGS (/ ˈ f l æ. ər t i, ˈ f l ɑː-/; [3] 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).
Flaherty's legacy is the subject of the 2010 British Universities Film & Video Council award-winning and FOCAL International award-nominated documentary A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (so named because, after the staged climactic sequence of Man of Aran, Flaherty said he'd been accused of "trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen"), written by ...
Richard James Flaherty (November 28, 1945 — May 9, 2015) was a historically notable United States Army captain in Vietnam War service. As once the smallest serviceman in US history (standing at 4 feet 9 inches (1.45 m)) and inspired to undermine size-prejudice, investing his military leadership with insight and skills to survive bravery - Capt. Flaherty is today renowned as "The Giant Killer".
Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades and spirals into guilt as his treachery becomes known. Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J. M. Kerrigan co ...
John M. Slattery Jr. (born August 13, 1962) [1] is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–15), for which he was nominated 4 times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Joseph Walton Losey III (/ ˈ l oʊ s i /; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter.Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States.
Alex Garland, whose most recent film “Civil War” hit theaters in April, is back with another heavy drama with his new film “Warfare,” set during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The intense film ...
Samuel Michael Fuller was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, of Jewish parents, Rebecca (née Baum) and Benjamin Fuller. [4] His father died in 1923 when Samuel was 11. After immigrating to the United States, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to Fuller, a name possibly inspired by Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim), a doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflow