John Marshall
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday12 November 1932
Died22 April 2005 (age 72)
Place of birthMassachusetts, USA
Known credits42
Biography
John Kennedy Marshall (November 12, 1932 – April 22, 2005) was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Ju/'hoansi (also called the !Kung Bushmen). Marshall first traveled to the Kalahari Desert and met the Ju/'hoansi of the Nyae Nyae area in 1949 on a trip initiated by his father. Throughout the 1950s and 1960's members of the Marshall family returned to the Kalahari Desert numerous times to conduct an ethnographic study of the Ju/'hoansi. From 1950-1958 Marshall filmed the hunting and gathering life of the J…
A Kalahari Family
2001 · Himself
A Kalahari Family
2001 · Director
To Hold Our Ground: A Field Report
1991 · Director
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
1981 · Director
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
1981 · Director of Photography
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
1981 · Editor
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978 · Sound Recordist
If It Fits
1978 · Director
Baobab Play
1974 · Director
The Meat Fight
1974 · Director
After the Game
1973 · Director
A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding
1973 · Director
The 4th, 5th, and the Exclusionary Rule
1973 · Director
Manifold Controversy
1973 · Director
Two Brothers
1973 · Director
You Wasn't Loitering
1973 · Director
Nothing Hurt But My Pride
1973 · Director
Youth and the Man of Property
1973 · Director
The Informant
1973 · Director
Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days
1973 · Director
Wrong Kid
1973 · Director
Men Bathing
1973 · Director
Playing with Scorpions
1972 · Director
901/904
1972 · Director
Investigation of a Hit and Run
1972 · Director
A Rite of Passage
1972 · Director
Debe's Tantrum
1972 · Director
The Wasp Nest
1972 · Director
Bitter Melons
1971 · Director
Three Domestics
1971 · Director
Vagrant Woman
1971 · Director
Inside/Outside Station Nine
1970 · Director
Inside Outside Station 9
1970 · Director
The Lion Game
1970 · Camera Operator
N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game
1970 · Director
The Lion Game
1970 · Director
An Argument About a Marriage
1969 · Director
A Curing Ceremony
1969 · Director
N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
1969 · Camera Operator
N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
1969 · Director
Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study
1968 · Production Assistant
Titicut Follies
1967 · Director of Photography
A Joking Relationship
1962 · Director
A Group of Women
1961 · Director
The Hunters
1957 · Narrator
The Hunters
1957 · Director
The Hunters
1957 · Director of Photography
The Hunters
1957 · Editor
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