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Trinidad and Tobago

Filmmaker · Trinidad and Tobago

Hugh A. Robertson

Died in 1988

Hugh A. Robertson was born on 28 May 1932 in Brooklyn, to Jamaican parents. A film editor, he was the first African American nominated for an Academy Award for editing and received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, then moved into directing. Married to a Trinidadian woman, he settled in Trinidad, where he founded a production company with partners from the island, equipped with a studio at Chaguaramas, filmed a play by Derek Walcott for an American network and ran a film school. He died on 10 January 1988.

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