Robert Flaherty
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Emerging from a multicultural family in the Great Lakes region, he first gained recognition as a Toronto still-photographer whose portraits of Indigenous peoples and wildlife sparked his ambition to capture cultural life on film. After a disastrous loss of early footage, he secured French fur-trade financing and, in 1920, filmed the Inuit community that became the landmark documentary Nanook of th…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for
Filmography
Also behind the camera
The films and series they directed.
