Background
Grubin, David Robert was born on January 26, 1944 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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Grubin, David Robert was born on January 26, 1944 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1965. Master of Arts in Teaching, Harvard University, 1966.
A director, writer, producer, French and American historian, and cinematographer, David Grubin has produced over 100 films, ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, winning every award in the field of documentary television, including two Alfred I. Dupont awards, two George Foster Peabody prizes, five Writer"s Guild prizes, and ten Emmys. His biographies for American Experience on Public Broadcasting Service - Lyndon Baines Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman, TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided - have set the standard for television biography. His independent feature film, Downtown Express, has been selected for the Woodstock Film Festival, FilmColumbia Festival, and opening night at the Cinema Arts Festival Houston.
He teaches documentary filmmaking at Columbia University"s Graduate Film Program.
In 2015 his documentary Language Matters with Bob Holman, was produced for and shown on Public Broadcasting Service (which also streamed the film on its website).
A member of the executive committee of the Society of American Historians, Grubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Hamilton College. He is member of the Writers Guild and Directors Guild, and is a former chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.
Married Joan Allan Barkhausen. Children: Eve, Elizabeth, Benjamin.