Errol Morris may be always be known as the man who inspired director Warner Herzog to eat his own shoe, but the storied career of the Academy Award winning documentarian has done its own part to establish him as an artist who can surely walk on his own two feet.

Born in New York in 1948, M

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A Queens native committed to filming the outer boroughs of New York, Gray's career, while picking up steam recently, has produced only four features in 15 years. Each of his first three films is ostensibly a "crime picture" but at heart they are films of family, which proves Gray's work bears as much

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