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King Wallis Vidor ( / ˈviːdɔːr /; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras. His works are distinguished by a vivid, humane, and sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues.
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis.
King Vidor, American motion-picture director whose films of the 1920s and ’30s were among the most creative of those produced in Hollywood. Among his most admired works were The Big Parade (1925), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931), Stella Dallas (1937), and The Citadel (1938).
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis.
Feb 8, 2018 · King Vidor: 10 essential films. Not as famous as John Ford or Howard Hawks, Texas-born King Vidor was nonetheless one of the great American directors of the golden age of Hollywood. Get to know 10 of his best movies.
Aug 3, 2022 · King Vidor, the Versatile Messenger. By David Hudson. The Daily —. Aug 3, 2022. Share. King Vidor, Patricia Neal, and Gary Cooper during the making of The Fountainhead (1949) “I believe in the motion picture that carries a message to humanity,” wrote King Vidor in 1920.
Feb 13, 2007 · Vidor, King. Committed to the most unyielding and almost brutally positive American determination, King Vidor was a man of considerable artistic ambition who came of age in a period when movies were a new medium and wide-open for individual points of view.
