Robert Drew Biography

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Robert Lincoln Drew (born February 15, 1924) in Toledo, Ohio) is an American writer and director.

His first movie was Primary in 1960. A documentary about the Wisconsin primary elections between Hubert H. Humphrey and John F. Kennedy. The next movie he directed was Yanki No! in 1960. Another documentary about the anti-American sentiments in Cuba and Latin America. He made a few other short documentaries; his latest was From Two Men and a War, which recounts his experience as a World War II fighter pilot, and his encounters with the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Ernie Pyle.

Drew formed Drew Associates with Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker in the early 1960's.

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