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William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and military pilot. He was known for his work in crime , adventure , and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion.
May 20, 2024 · William Wellman (born February 29, 1896, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 9, 1975, Los Angeles, California) was an American film director whose more than 80 movies included Hollywood classics of documentary -like realism and who was ranked as an action director alongside Howard Hawks and John Ford. (Read Martin Scorsese’s ...
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William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.
- February 29, 1896
- December 9, 1975
- Other Men’s Women (1931) Arguably Wellman’s most consistently rich period, his pre-code run of punchy 70-minute gems in the early 30s takes some beating.
- Night Nurse (1931) Come for the early performances from Barbara Stanwyck and Clark Gable, stay for what turns out to be one of Wellman’s toughest, strangest cookies.
- Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Another of his early best, Wild Boys of the Road sees Wellman at his most politically engaged. Downsizing the characters of Beggars of Life to a trio of kids, forced cross-country in a bid to find work and ease the burden on their suddenly-impoverished folks, the film pulls no punches confronting the grim slide into the social gutter of the Depression.
- A Star Is Born (1937) Given how many times even the official telling of the A Star Is Born narrative has been around the block (a fourth iteration with some combination of Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper and Beyoncé attached has been mooted for a while now), Hollywood clearly holds some stock in the timelessness of its most famous parallel rise-and-fall tale.
Feb 10, 2012 · Paramount Pictures. By Terrence Rafferty. Feb. 10, 2012. THEY called him, not always affectionately, Wild Bill. William A. Wellman earned the nickname as a flier in World War I, and it stuck to...
Like Valance, Ford’s contemporary William Wellman (1896 - 1975) has been etched into Hollywood lore as a mythic figure, a boisterous, bravura maverick and bold woodblock of a quintessentially 20th century American artist quickly recognized but little known.
William Wellman, (born Feb. 29, 1896, Brookline, Mass, U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1975, Los Angeles, Calif.), U.S. film director. He was a flying ace in World War I and later a barnstorming stunt pilot. He acted in Knickerbocker Buckeroo (1919) with Douglas Fairbanks before turning to directing.
