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King Vidor
King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894–November 1, 1982) was an American film director.
He was born in Galveston, Texas, and survived the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
A freelance newsreel cameraman and cinema projectionist , he made his debut as a director in 1913 with the two-reel film In Tow. In Hollywood from 1915, he worked on a variety of film-related jobs before directing a feature film, The Turn of the Road in 1919. A successful mounting of Peg o' My Heart in 1922 got him a long term contract with MGM. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he received an honorary award in 1979.
He directed his last film, a documentary called The Metaphor, in 1980.
Selected Filmography
- The Jack Knife Man 1920
- The Sky Pilot 1921
- Peg 'o My Heart 1922
- The Big Parade 1925
- The Crowd 1928
- The Champ 1931
- Our Daily Bread 1934
- Comrade X 1940
- Northwest Passage 1940
- Duel in the Sun 1946
- The Fountainhead, 1949
- Ruby Gentry 1952
- War and Peace 1956
- Solomon and Sheba 1959
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