Lewis Cotlow

Lewis Cotlow (born 1898 -died 1987)[1] was an explorer, author and filmmaker.[2]

Biography

Cotlow served in the US Army during World I and became a supercargo with the United States Merchant Marine.

After attending George Washington University he made more than 30 expeditions [3]travelled to Africa, South America, Indonesia, and the Arctic, the Amazon, Australia, and New Guinea from 1930s - 1950s to film. His first technicolor movie was filmed on location in Africa and was co-produced with a man called Armand Dennis (a wildlife photographer)

In his lifetime, he was awarded the Explorers Club Medal and Order of Magellan and was a member of The Explorers Club. He was also employed as a New York insurance broker.

He left his collections to Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.

Major works

Books
  • Passport to Adventure (1942)
  • Amazon Head-Hunters (1953)
  • Zanzabuku: Dangerous Safari (book and film, 1956)
  • In Search of the Primitive: An Independent Explorer's Life with the Last of the Exotic Peoples of Africa, the Arctic, New Guinea (1966)
  • Twilight of the Primitive (1971)

Films
  • Through Africa Unarmed (c. 1937; lost)
  • Upper Amazon and High Andes Adventure (1941)
  • Savage Splendor (1949)
  • Jungle Headhunters (1949)
  • Zanzabuku: Dangerous Safari (book and film, 1956)
  • High Arctic (film, 1963)

References
  1. http://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/about-lewis-cotlow
  2. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182857/
  3. https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/about-lewis-cotlow
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