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Mar 9, 2018 · 9 March 2018. Tweet. Raoul Walsh. He didn’t want to be burdened with a glass eye, went his story following the car accident that left him with his distinctive eye patch, as he’d only have to keep removing it every time he got into a fight. Print the legend, indeed. It’s certainly a tale in keeping with the cinema of Raoul Walsh, in any case.
Apr 15, 2024 · But Warner Baxter ended up as Cisco when a jackrabbit smashed through the windshield of Walsh’s car early in the production, leaving him with his trademark eye patch. Irving Cummings finished directing the film (and earned an Oscar nomination for it).
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Oct 24, 2010 · While Walsh drove through the Utah desert at night, a jackrabbit crashed through the windshield. The shattered glass cost Walsh his right eye, but earned him an eye patch, which made him one of the most recognizable figures in Hollywood. Surprisingly, Walsh is the most neglected major figure in American movies.
Jan 3, 1981 · A black patch replaced his right eye, which he lost in 1928 when a jackrabbit crashed into the windshield of his car. Raoul Walsh was born in Manhattan on March 11, 1887. His father was...
Mar 11, 2014 · Raoul Walsh, the director in an eye patch long before John Ford or Nicholas Ray, had a long career in films spanning the pioneering years of D. W. Griffith in the silents to wide screen Technicolor epics of the mid-‘60’s. He specialized in action pictures—gritty crime dramas, westerns, war movies.
Walsh was at his best when directing men in war or action pictures. Raoul Walsh seemingly recovered from Mailer's phantasmagorical death bed, as he lived another 22 years after The Naked and the Dead (1958) . He died on December 31, 1980, in Simi Valley, California, at the age of 93. Born March 11, 1887.
Before John Ford and Nicholas Ray, it was Raoul Walsh who made the eye-patch almost as synonymous with a Hollywood director as Cecil B. DeMille 's jodhpurs.
