Robert Drew(1924-2014)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Robert Drew was born on 15 February 1924 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Storm Signal (1966), The Bell Telephone Hour (1959) and The Chair (1963). He was married to Anne Gilbert and First Wife. He died on 30 July 2014 in Sharon, Connecticut, USA.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Producer
Director
- 2008
- 2005
- 1988
- 1986
- 1974
- 1972
- 1971
- 1966
- 1966
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963
- 1960–1961
- On the Pole
- Director
- 1960
- 1960
Writer
- Official site
- Born
- Died
- July 30, 2014
- Sharon, Connecticut, USA(sepsis)
- SpousesAnne Gilbert? - April 12, 2012 (her death)
- Other worksIn 1963, he produced the unsold pilot for a proposed documentary series called "Crises" were men and women doing dangerous work were featured each week.
- Publicity listings
- TriviaHe founded a documentary film company, Drew Associates, in 1960, on the central premise that there would be no direction of the subjects of his films, meaning they would not be coached on how or what to say whatever they had to say. In the process, he hired some of the most important documentary filmmakers of the last fifty years, from 1960s through the 2000s, including Ricky Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles.
- QuotesNonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems, one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained. They'd been mistrained because their equipment was so heavy and complicated that it made it impossible to shoot in situations where you could really capture reality. This problem couldn't be solved until somebody figured out how to cut the equipment down to a load that anybody could carry.
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