Kevin Brownlow
English filmmaker and film historian · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Born 1938 · age 88
Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film.
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Cartoon CarnivalFilm2019
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer CinematographersFilm2015
NotfilmFilm2013
Birth of the TrampFilm2011Academy Honorary AwardAward2009
The ChronoscopeFilm, Himself2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American EpicFilm, Director2001
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion DaviesFilm1999Censored!Film1997The Race to Save 100 YearsFilm1995
Cinema Europe: The Other HollywoodSeries, Director, Creator1989
Harold Lloyd: The Third GeniusFilm, Director, Writer1987
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to FollowSeries, Director, Writer1986Jean Mitry AwardAward1983
Unknown ChaplinSeries, Director, Writer
Millay at SteepletopFilm, 1983Director1980
HollywoodSeries, Director, Writer1975
WinstanleyFilm, Director, Writer1967The World of Josef von SternbergFilm, Writer1962
Nine, Dalmuir WestFilm, Director, Writer1938Born2 June 1938People around Kevin
- Lindsay Anderson Also in Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite (1968)
- Jerome Willis Kevin directed Winstanley (1976)
Gary Cooper Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Hugh Hefner Produced Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
Clara Bow Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Hedda Hopper Kevin produced Wings (1929)
William A. Wellman Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Sebastian Shaw Kevin produced It Happened Here (1965)
Charles Rogers Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Jobyna Ralston Kevin produced Wings (1929)
George Irving Kevin produced Wings (1927)- Charles Barton Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Richard Arlen Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Roscoe Karns Kevin produced Wings (1929)
El Brendel Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Arlette Marchal Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Ben Lewin Kevin directed Winstanley (1976)
Thomas Carrigan Kevin produced Wings (1929)
Barrie Gavin Directed The World of Josef von Sternberg (1967)
Reginald Marsh Kevin produced It Happened Here (1965)
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Brownlow has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. In 1981, he received a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the 34th British Academy Film Awards. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010. This was the first occasion on which an Academy Honorary Award was given to a film preservationist.
