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Errol Morris

Film Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Film Producer | * 02/05/1948 (76) | Hewlett, Long Island, New York (United States of America (USA))
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron device for his style of filmmaking. In 2003, his documentary film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of a wild animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist and a naked mole rat specialist. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Music | Drama

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Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison. ...

Standard Operating Procedure

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2008 | 3.4/5 | 1h 57min
Documentary
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Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. ...

The Thin Blue Line

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1988 | 3.9/5 | 1h 43min
Crime, Documentary
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Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion t ...

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

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1997 | 3.5/5 | 1h 23min
Documentary
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Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to bein ...

The Fog of War

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2003 | 3.9/5 | 1h 47min
Documentary
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Awards & Nominations for Errol Morris

MacArthur Fellows Program Edgar Awards Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Guggenheim Fellowship
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Movies with Errol Morris as Actor(14)

as himself2019 American Dharma
as himself2019 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
as himself2017 The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
as himself2016 An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell
as Himself (voice)2014 Bob Geldof: The Moment
as Self - Filmmaker2014 Life Itself
as Self - Interviewer (voice)2013 The Unknown Known
as himself2013 Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as himself2008 Capturing Reality
as himself2007 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
as himself2003 The Fog of War
as himself1999 A Brief History of Errol Morris
as Self - Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)1999 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
1984 Hotel New York

TV Shows/Series with Errol Morris as Actor(2)

as himself2020 A Wilderness of Error
as himself1998 Independent Focus

Movies with Errol Morris as Crew(51)

Directing/Director2023 The Pigeon Tunnel
Production/Producer2023 The Pigeon Tunnel
Writing/Writer2023 The Pigeon Tunnel
Production/Executive Producer2023 The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Production/Executive Producer2021 Enemies of the State
Directing/Director2020 My Psychedelic Love Story
Production/Executive Producer2020 My Psychedelic Love Story
Directing/Director2019 American Dharma
Production/Producer2019 American Dharma
Directing/Director2017 The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Directing/Director2017 Wormwood
Directing/Director2016 Demon in the Freezer
Production/Executive Producer2016 The Lure
Production/Executive Producer2016 National Bird
Directing/Director2015 It's Not Crazy, It's Sports
Directing/Director2015 Being Mr. Met
Directing/Director2015 The Streaker
Directing/Director2015 The Subterranean Stadium
Directing/Director2015 The Heist
Directing/Director2015 Most Valuable Whatever
Directing/Director2014 Lech Walesa: The Shipyard
Directing/Director2014 Bob Geldof: The Moment
Production/Executive Producer2014 The Look of Silence
Directing/Director2014 Leymah Gbowee: The Dream
Directing/Director2013 The Unknown Known
Directing/Director2013 November 22, 1963
Directing/Director2012 11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?
Production/Executive Producer2012 The Act of Killing
Directing/Director2012 El Wingador
Directing/Director2011 The Umbrella Man
Directing/Director2011 They Were There
Directing/Director2010 Dennis Jakob Unplugged
Directing/Director2010 Tabloid
Directing/Director2008 Standard Operating Procedure
Production/Producer2008 Standard Operating Procedure
Directing/Director2008 Survivors
Directing/Director2003 The Fog of War
Production/Producer2003 The Fog of War
Directing/Director1999 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Production/Producer1999 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Directing/Director1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Production/Producer1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Directing/Director1991 The Dark Wind
Directing/Director1991 A Brief History of Time
Directing/Director1988 The Thin Blue Line
Writing/Writer1988 The Thin Blue Line
Directing/Director1981 Vernon, Florida
Production/Producer1981 Vernon, Florida
Directing/Director1978 Gates of Heaven
Editing/Editor1978 Gates of Heaven
Production/Producer1978 Gates of Heaven

TV Shows/Series with Errol Morris as Crew(2)

Writing/Book2020 A Wilderness of Error
Directing/Director1988 POV

Full Name: Errol Morris
Born: Thursday, 02/05 1948 (February) in Hewlett, Long Island, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 76 years + 81 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison, San Francisco Art Institute, The Putney School
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Children: Hamilton Morris
Student of: Nadia Boulanger
Errol Morris frequently works together with these people:
Philip Glass (8x, Crew)
Werner Herzog (6x, Crew)
Christine Cynn (5x, Crew)
Steven Hathaway (5x, Crew)
Robert Chappell (4x, Crew)
Alex Gibney (4x, Crew)
Tom Christer Lilletvedt (4x, Crew)
Paul Leonard-Morgan (4x, Crew)
Maria Kristensen (4x, Crew)
Steve James (4x, Crew)
Robert Fernandez (4x, Crew)
Laura Poitras (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:65773, Added: 05/23/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024