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
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Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
as Archival Footage
2006
—Lomax the Songhunter
as Self (archive footage)
2004
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Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966
as Producer, Director
1996
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Appalachian Journey
as Narrator, Director
1991
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Cajun Country
as Director
1991
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Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
as Director
1991
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American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
as Self - Host, Writer, Director, Producer
1990
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Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
as Director
1990
—The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
as Self
1990
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BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
as Self
1988
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The Land Where the Blues Began
as Writer, Producer, Director
1979
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Step Style
as Director
1977
—Dana Can Deal
as Sound Recordist
1976
—Dance and Human History
as Director
1974
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Green Mansions
as Thanks
1959
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Oss Oss Wee Oss
as Director, Writer
1953
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To Hear Your Banjo Play
as Writer
1947
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