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[]

External links[]

• Lewis Cotlow at IMDb

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