biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. After military service, he taught at Boston University, making his first documentary, Psychiatry in Russia in 1955. His brother, David Maysles (1932–87), also did military service and then worked as assistant film producer on Bus Stop (1956) and The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). The brothers began collaborating on documentaries in 1957, and became famous for their cinéma vérité techniques (which they called ‘direct cinema’). Their best films include Salesman (1969, about a Bible salesman), Gimme Shelter (1970, about the Rolling Stones), and Grey Gardens (1975, about an eccentric elderly lady and her daughter). They also made industrial and promotional films, and Albert worked as a cameraman on many documentaries of other film-makers. |
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