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| Film director, documentary film-maker, and anthropologist, born in Budapest, Hungary. A member of an aristocratic family, he took his MD before serving in the Hungarian cavalry and air service in World War 1. He made several feature films in Hungary before moving to New York City (1923) and, after working as a researcher with the Rockefeller Institute, he made an experimental film about suicide, The Last Moment (1928). This led to a brief career as a film director in Hollywood, but in the early 1930s he went back to Europe and directed a number of feature films. By the late 1930s he began to make ethnographic films in Madagascar, Indonesia, and Thailand, and began to develop an interest in anthropology. In the 1940s he headed an expedition to Peru, where he applied his knowledge of anthropology to film the documentary, Yagua (1941). He became director of research for the Viking Fund (1941), later renamed after its principal benefactor as the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Fejos headed it in 1955–63. He became a consulting professor of anthropology at Stanford (1943–63) and taught at such institutions as Yale, Columbia, and Fordham. |
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