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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: February 5, 1948 in Hewlett, NY Biography:Part detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, "Errol Morris" is one of the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation. Like such documentary masters as "Jean Rouch" and "Frederick Wiseman", Morris delves into vexing philosophical issues of death, identity, and society. But, unlike many other non-fiction filmmakers, Morris challenges the very presumptions of the "documentary" by incorporating multiple points of view and giving his works a stylistic polish usually reserved for mainstream fiction films. His movies have largely achieved great critical success, and he has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
Born in 1948 in Hewlett, Long Island, to a Juilliard graduate and a doctor, Morris was well on his way to getting a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley until his obsession with movies... Full Biography
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