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Eventually he landed at NBC News, directing and shooting. He was director, writer, and associate producer of Sit-In, an hour-long installment of the primetime documentary series NBC White Paper, which aired in December 1960. Narrated by NBC News anchor Chet Huntley, it profiled the surging sit-in movement in the South. It won a Peabody.
Mar 1, 2024 · March 1, 2024. Robert M. Young, an eclectic director whose documentary subjects included civil rights lunch counter sit-ins and sharks, and whose feature films included one about a Mexican...
Feb 9, 2024 · February 9, 2024 6:18pm. Robert M. Young Getty Images. Robert M. Young, whose 70-year career included independent and studio documentaries, narrative features, and episodes of...
Feb 13, 2024 · Robert M. Young, the adventurous director who called the shots for Edward James Olmos in The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, Farrah Fawcett in Extremities and Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta in Dominick...
Feb 9, 2024 · By Tom Brueggemann. February 9, 2024 7:10 pm. Robert M. Young. ©Showtime Networks Inc./Courtesy Everett Collection. Robert M. Young, one of the pioneers of American independent cinema...
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Robert Milton Young (November 22, 1924 – February 6, 2024) was an American film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer. Young was considered a trailblazer in the independent filmmaking sector [2] and for frequently casting Edward James Olmos in his movies, directing him in Alambrista!
Feb 12, 2024 · Irwin died at ninety-four in January 2022, and Robert M. Young passed away last week at the age of ninety-nine. Bob Young started out in the 1950s making educational films and documentaries such as Secrets of the Reef (1956), a groundbreaker in the annals of underwater cinematography. In 1960, he landed at NBC, where he made Sit-In, an episode ...
