Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his documentary film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of an animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist and a naked mole rat specialist.

5 February 1948

Born on the same birth date (5 February 1948): Barbara Hershey • Christopher Guest • Sven-Göran Eriksson • Tom Wilkinson

Born on the same birth day (5 February): Abhishek Bachchan • Andreas Dudith • André Citroën • Barbara Hershey • Carl Spitzweg • Christian Gottlob Neefe • Derek Stephen Prince • Donald Sanford (athlete) • Eugen Weidmann • Gaston Roelants • Henfil • Isuzu Yamada • James E. Bowman • José María Olazábal • Kurt Beck • Michel Breistroff • Richard Matvichuk

Born in the same month (February 1948): Bill Alexander (director) • Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo • Christopher Guest • Kaiketsu Masateru • Mike Figgis • Pierre Bouchard • Sharyn McCrumb • Teller (magician) • Tony Iommi • Trevor Cherry • Wally Tax