King Vidor

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King Vidor


Born
in Galveston, Texas, The United States
February 08, 1894

Died
November 01, 1982

Genre
Art


King Vidor was an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

Vidor was born in Galveston, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

A freelance newsreel cameraman and cinema projectionist, Vidor made his debut as a director in 1913 with The Grand Military Parade.
In Hollywood from 1915, he worked as a screenwriter and as director of a series of six short juvenile-delinquency films for Judge Willis Brown before directing his first feature, The Turn in the Road, in 1919. A successful mounting of Peg o' My Heart in 1922 won him a long-term contract with Goldwyn Studios (later to be absorbed into MGM).

Three years later he made The Big Parade, among the most acclaimed war films of the silent era, and a tremendous comm
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A Tree Is a Tree

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Wild Oranges [illustrated w...

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Cinema

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On Film Making

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