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William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was a prolific film director in The Golden Age of Hollywood whose career spanned over thirty years from the 1920s to the 1950s, flawlessly moving from silent movies to the talkies. He was a World War I fighter pilot, earning the nickname "Wild Bill", and would continue to fly ...
Between 1920 and 1923, he rose from bit actor to studio gofer to director. After a stint in westerns, Wellman was chosen in 1927 to direct Wings, a major drama dealing with pilots during World War I that was highlighted by air combat and flight sequences that remain impressive over 60 years later. The movie earned the first Academy Award ever ...
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy. Votes: 7,693 | Gross: $10.29M. 8.
Hatchet Man, The - (Original Trailer)When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter in The Hatchet Man (1932), a pre-Code melodrama directed by William Wellman and starring Edward G. Robinson. Wild Boys of the Road - (Original Trailer)An impoverished girl masquerades as a boy to run with a gang of young ...
The High and the Mighty: Directed by William A. Wellman. With John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack. When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
Dec 9, 2012 · Wellman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6125 Hollywood Blvd. Father of actor-author, William A. Wellman Jr. Motion Picture Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor. Tough, carousing Hollywood director-writer-producer whose classic silent film "Wings" (1927) won the first Academy Award presented for Best Picture in 1929.
Track of the Cat. Track of the Cat is a 1954 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Diana Lynn. The film is based on a 1949 adventure novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. This was Wellman's second adaptation of a Clark novel; the first was The Ox-Bow Incident in 1943.
