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Kevin Brownlow

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English filmmaker and film historian

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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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Filmography 40

It Happened Here1966
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché2018
The Tramp and the Dictator2002
Universal Horror1998
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces2000
Birth of the Tramp2013
Winstanley1975
Cinerama Adventure2002
Garbo2005
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film1993
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers2019
Notfilm2015
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM2004
I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper2005
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies2001
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women2014
The Chronoscope2009
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic2004
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius1989
Cartoon Carnival2021
About "The White Bus"1968
Nine, Dalmuir West1962
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite1968
The Race to Save 100 Years1997
The World of Josef von Sternberg1967
Millay at Steepletop1983
It Happened Here Again1976
White Thunder2002
Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on Intolerance2013
The Original Action Hero
Censored!1999
Presenting the Gold Rush2012
Presenting the Gold Rush2012
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema1986
Louise Brooks1986
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals2005
Silents, Please! A Love Letter to the Silent Era2020
Editors on Editing
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess2012
Searching for the Lost Pochta2014

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Television 4

Hollywood1980
Unknown Chaplin1983
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow1987
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood1995

Awards 3

2011Academy Honorary Award
1986Jean Mitry Award
Peabody Awards

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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. 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.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
living
Dates
Born 1938 · age 88
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14 languages

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