André de la Varre (September 14, 1904 – December 19, 1987) was a leading American travelogue filmmaker from a prominent family who started as a 17-year-old visiting Europe with a recently acquired movie camera at the end of World War I.
With Harold Autin and Paul B. Devlin contributing as producers, these highly professional travelogues received wider distribution by Nu-Art in 1936 and enjoyed a second life as educational material in public schools, being reissued for copyright in the 1950s.
His long association with that studio began with his early 1943 covering (the simply titled) Snow Sports of Lake Placid, New York, and the Tropical Sportland of Florida; by now, he was working in full Technicolor.
Other notable titles include That's Bully, covering the Running of the bulls in Pamplona (filmed '48 and released early '50), Emperor's Horses (featuring the Lippizaner in Austria, 1951), Carnival in Rio (1953) and Who's Who In The Zoo (1954).
Despite financial problems with the Burton Holmes company and a shrinking market for travelogues, he still managed another well-received 90 minute feature These States for the Bicentennial Council in 1975.