War and Peace
1956
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King Vidor. Director: War and Peace. 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.
Mar 25, 2021 · By Michael Corcoran. March 25, 2021. The Film Daily, a New York publication, featured King Vidor on one of its covers in 1919. Photo courtesy The Film Daily /Wikimedia. Filmmaker King Vidor was only 6 years old when he survived the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 nearly wiped out his hometown and ...
Nov 2, 1982 · King Vidor, the director of many pace-setting movies beginnning more than half a century ago, died yesterday of a heart ailment at his ranch in the rolling seaside hills of Paso Robles, Calif....
King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator."
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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.
Aug 3, 2022 · King Vidor, the Versatile Messenger. By David Hudson. The Daily —. Aug 3, 2022. 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. He’d already directed and appeared in a good number of shorts and features ...
Feb 8, 2018 · 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.
