Lewis Cotlow
Lewis Cotlow (born 1898 -died 1987)[1] was an explorer, author and filmmaker.[2]
Biography
Cotlow served in the US Army during World I and became a supercargo with the United States Merchant Marine.
After attending George Washington University he made more than 30 expeditions [3] travelled to Africa, South America, Indonesia, and the Arctic, the Amazon, Australia, and New Guinea from 1930s - 1950s to film. His first technicolor movie was filmed on location in Africa and was co-produced with a man called Armand Dennis (a wildlife photographer)
In his lifetime, he was awarded the Explorers Club Medal and Order of Magellan and was a member of The Explorers Club. He was also employed as a New York insurance broker.
He left his collections to Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.
Major works
Books
- Passport to Adventure (1942)
- Amazon Head-Hunters (1953)
- Zanzabuku: Dangerous Safari (book and film, 1956)
- In Search of the Primitive: An Independent Explorer's Life with the Last of the Exotic Peoples of Africa, the Arctic, New Guinea (1966)
- Twilight of the Primitive (1971)
Films
- Through Africa Unarmed (c. 1937; lost)
- Upper Amazon and High Andes Adventure (1941)
- Savage Splendor (1949)
- Jungle Headhunters (1949)
- Zanzabuku: Dangerous Safari (book and film, 1956)
- High Arctic (film, 1963)
References
External links
- Lewis Cotlow at IMDb
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