Robert Gardner was born on November 5, 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Forest of Bliss (1986), Rivers of Sand (1974) and Altar of Fire (1976). He died on June 21, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Founder of the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Served as director from 1957 to 1997.
He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Hunters (1957) & Dead Birds (1963).