Directing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
January 31, 1915
Died
July 19, 2002 (age 87)
Born in
Austin, Texas, USA
Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
as Self, Director, Producer
2012

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
as Archival Footage
2006
Lomax the Songhunter
as Self (archive footage)
2004

Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966
as Producer, Director
1996

Appalachian Journey
as Narrator, Director
1991

Cajun Country
as Director
1991

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
as Director
1991

American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
as Self - Host, Writer, Director, Producer
1990

Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
as Director
1990
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
as Self
1990

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
as Self
1988

The Land Where the Blues Began
as Writer, Producer, Director
1979

Step Style
as Director
1977
Dana Can Deal
as Sound Recordist
1976

Dance and Human History
as Director
1974

Green Mansions
as Thanks
1959

Oss Oss Wee Oss
as Director, Writer
1953

To Hear Your Banjo Play
as Writer
1947