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Robert M. Young Dies: Groundbreaking Independent Film Director, Camera d’Or And Peabody Award Winner Was 99
Groundbreaking Independent Film Director Robert M. Young dies at 99.
In 1960, working for NBC News, his film Sit-In, which contained footage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the early days of his civil rights movement, won a Peabody Award. His first solo feature as director was Short Eyes(,1977), an independently-made adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s play, starring Bruce Davison as an accused child rapist in a New York jail. His career included Extremities with Farrah Fawcett, Dominick and Eugene with Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta, Triumph of the Spirit with Willem Dafoe, and American Me, set among Mexican-American gangs in prison.
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