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Errol Morris

American director
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Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948, Hewlett, New York, U.S.) is an American film director, known for his meticulously researched, engaging documentary portraits of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and for his arresting visual style. Morris earned a bachelorā€™s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1969. He attended graduate school at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, but abandoned his studies to begin working as a film director....

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