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Bookmark or Share- King Vidor - WikipediaKing Wallis Vidor (/ ˈ v iː d ɔːr / VEE-dor; 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 (1894-1982) Film Director - Obscure HollywoodBiography 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.
- DGA Quarterly Magazine | Winter 2011 | DGA Interview - King Vidor"King Vidor" — the name sounds like a character from a movie, a match for Darth Vader perhaps. It carries connotations of majesty and the Latin root for video, videre — to see. Vidor was a beloved figure in the industry and a famous director from the silent era to CinemaScope and beyond.
- Vidor, King - Senses of CinemaCommitted 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.
- He was a Hollywood pioneer, but the Central Coast man is now ... - KCLUKing Vidor directed the black and white sequences in the Wizard of Oz, including Judy Garland’s performance of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. He was born in Texas in 1894. Once of his first jobs was as a ticket-taker at a silent movie theater.
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