Robert Lincoln Drew

1924 - 2014  (90 years)

• Name	Robert Lincoln Drew
  Birth	15 Feb 1924	Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Jul 2014	Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
  Burial	Hillside Cemetery, Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
  Person ID	I17580	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 May 2021

  
  

  Father	1st Lieutenant Robert Woodson Drew,   b. 3 Jan 1899   d. 12 Dec 1944 (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Mary Way Passmore,   b. 17 Mar 1902   d. 12 Jan 1981 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F6035	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Drew,   b. 4 Dec 1941, Brooklyn, Queens County, New York, USA d. 12 Apr 2012, Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F6036	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Six of his films are archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and two are in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. His many awards include an International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award.