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Les Blank (November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. [1] Life and career. Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. was born November 27, 1935, in Tampa, Florida.
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Les Blank (November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an...
- Les Blank - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photo by Harrod Blank About Les Blank (1935-2013) was an internationally renowned, independent filmmaker, whose poetic work offers intimate, idiosyncratic glimpses into the lives, culture, and music of the passionate people at the periphery of American society.
Mini Bio. Born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Les Blank attended Tulane University in. New Orleans, where he received a B.A. in English literature and an. M.F.A. in theatre. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. film program. at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing.
- November 27, 1935
- April 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 · Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner...
Apr 11, 2013 · Les Blank is probably best known for the 1982 documentary “Burden of Dreams,” a film about the arduous making of “Fitzcarraldo,” the Werner Herzog film set in the jungles of South America ...
Apr 7, 2013 · A filmmaker who was best known for his Herzog film but also celebrated for documenting hidden slices of American folk culture, Blank died at his home in Berkeley after a long battle with cancer...
