War and Peace
1956
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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, 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.
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 was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter known for films like ‘The Big Parade’ and ‘The Crowd.’ His extensive career spanned nearly seven decades during which he was nominated five times for Academy Award for Best Director, and won eight international film awards.
Biography of Hollywood film director King Vidor, whose most influential films include the silent classics The Crowd and The Big Parade, and Hallelujah, Duel in the Sun, and War and Peace from the sound era.
Feb 13, 2007 · 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.
King Wallis Vidor 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.
Biography. 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."
King Vidor, (born Feb. 8, 1894, Galveston, Texas, U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1982, Paso Robles, Calif.), U.S. film director. He worked as a prop boy, scriptwriter, newsreel cameraman, and assistant director before directing his first feature film, The Turn in the Road (1919).
