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Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. He 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. Brownlow 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.
Born
Thursday, 02 June 1938
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Film, the Living Record of our Memory | Self | 2021 |
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster | Self - Interviewee | 2021 |
Cartoon Carnival | Self - Film Historian & Preservationist / Self | 2021 |
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Self | 2018 |
NOTFILM | Himself / Self | 2015 |
Duels | Self | 2014 |
The Birth of the Tramp | Self - film historian | 2013 |
Blazing the Trail: The O'Kalems in Ireland | Self | 2011 |
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Honorary Award Recipient | 2011 |
Red Carpet Report | Self | 2009 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper | 2005 |
Garbo | 2005 |
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM | 2004 |
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | 2004 |
The Tramp and the Dictator | 2002 |
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | 2000 |
Universal Horror | 1998 |
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 1995 |
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | 1987 |
American Masters | 1986 |
Unknown Chaplin | 1983 |
Hollywood | 1980 |
Winstanley | 1975 |
Crisis on Wheels | 1966 |
It Happened Here | 1966 |
Nine, Dalmuir West | 1962 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Obsessed with Light | 2023 |
Letters from Baghdad | 2016 |
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 1995 |
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | 1987 |
American Masters | 1986 |
Unknown Chaplin | 1983 |
Hollywood | 1980 |
Winstanley | 1975 |
It Happened Here | 1966 |
The Wind | 1928 |
Speedy | 1928 |
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | 1927 |
It | 1927 |
The Kid Brother | 1927 |
Flesh and the Devil | 1926 |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | 1925 |
The Big Parade | 1925 |
Greed | 1925 |
Hot Water | 1924 |
The Iron Horse | 1924 |
Girl Shy | 1924 |
Safety Last! | 1923 |
The Blot | 1921 |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 1921 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1990 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Special | Nominated |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Series | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Series | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Series | Won |
1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Series | Won |
1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Directing | Nominated |
1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Informational Series | Won |
1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Directing | Nominated |