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Robert M. Young
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer Born: November 22, 1924 in New York City, NY Biography:New York-born "Robert M. Young" began his directorial career in association with "Michael Roemer" in 1960 with a documentary on sit-ins for the NBC White Paper series. This was followed by a documentary on Angola. In 1962, their controversial documentary on poverty in Palermo, Sicily, "The Inferno", was rejected by the NBC network, but was later re-edited and shown at film festivals. Their next film together, Nothing but a Man (1965), became an acclaimed drama dealing with race relations in the United States as few feature films were willing to attempt, telling the tale of a black man ("Ivan Dixon") with dreams beyond the station that society is willing to permit, and the price that he pays for them. "Young" didn't make his next movie, "Alambrista!", as a director until a dozen years later, but he has always worked in serious films, often at the expense of popular acceptance. His adaptation of the... Full Biography
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