Robin Lehman
{{short description|American documentary filmmaker (born 1936)}}
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| birth_name = Robert Owen Lehman Jr.
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| nationality = American
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Robin Lehman (born Robert Owen Lehman Jr.; December 3, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his short films Don't (1974) and The End of the Game (1975), which received consecutive Academy Awards for Best Documentary (Short Subject). He is a member of the Lehman family.
Biography
Born Robert Owen Lehman Jr., he is the son of Robert Lehman (1891–1969) and Ruth "Kitty" (Leavitt) Meeker Lehman (1904–1984). His mother is the daughter of William Homer Leavitt and Ruth Bryan Owen and granddaughter of United States Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Suu9yUKdA8IC&q=Sigmund+M.+Lehman&pg=PA783|first=John N.|last=Ingham|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Volume 2|pages=783 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=January 1, 1983|isbn=9780313239083
}}[https://salemil.angelfire.com/iBryanWilliamJennings.html History and Families of Marion County Illinois: William Jennings Bryan] retrieved April 2, 2012 His father is the son of Philip Lehman and the grandson of Emanuel Lehman.{{Cite web|first=Rita |last=Reif |title=Article 985390 -- No Title |work=The New York Times|date= May 16, 1990 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/16/arts/article-985390-no-title.html |quote=The pictures, which were left to Lehman's grandchildren - the three children of Robert (Robin) Owen Lehman, a film maker - were sold with a guarantee, the first at this house}}
Outside of his work directing short documentaries, Lehman contributed special material to Tommy, the 1975 film version of The Who's rock opera. In 1977, he served as co-cinematographer of The Black Pearl.
He is married to music theorist Marie Rolf, a professor and senior associate dean at the Eastman School of Music.{{Cite web|title=Marie Rolf|url=https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/rolf_marie/|access-date=2021-03-27|website=Eastman School of Music|language=en}} They have two children, Rolf and Morgan.{{Cite web|last=Kozinn |first=Allan |title=MUSIC NOTES; Song Fest Co-Founder To Direct Arts Center At the 92d Street Y |work=New York Times|date= December 20, 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/20/arts/music-notes-song-fest-co-founder-to-direct-arts-center-at-the-92d-street-y.html }}{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Reverend Robert Frederick Rolf|publisher=The Plain Dealer|date= March 21, 2012 |url=http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=robert-frederick-rolf&pid=156610567 }} He was previously married to Aki Lehman with whom he has two children, Philip and Kate.{{Cite news|date=1978-04-15|title=Notes on People|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/15/archives/new-jersey-pages-notes-on-people.html|access-date=2021-03-27|issn=0362-4331}}
He is the disputed owner of 30 Benin Bronzes, that were displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The leader of the Benin Kingdom disputed the ownership of those objects. The museum ended up giving the objects back to the disputed owner.{{Cite news|date=2025-04-24|title= Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/arts/design/benin-bronzes-museum-fine-arts-boston-lehman.html|access-date=2025-04-24}}
Filmography
- 1972 Flyaway
- 1973 Colter's Hell
- 1973 Undercurrents
- 1974 Sea Creatures
- 1974 Don't
- 1974 Experimental
- 1974 ''Hotspot
- 1975 See
- 1975 The End of the Game
- 1976 Nightlife
- 1978 Manimals
- 1981 Forever Young
- 1981 The Little Players (about the eponymous puppet troupe)O'Connor, John J. [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/07/theater/tv-hand-puppet-theater-on-cable.html "TV: Hand-Puppet Theater on Cable,"] The New York Times 7 Jul. 1982.
- 1983 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwK5ukue0Pw Metropolitan Cats]https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886425/watch-a-very-weird-short-film-about-the-history-of-cats-in-art-at-the-met
- 1989 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0499651|Robin Lehman}}
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Category:American people of English descent