Henry King: Quick Facts


Facts

Born January 24, 1886 • Virginia
Died June 29, 1982 (aged 96) • California
Notable Works “A Bell for Adano” • “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” • “David and Bathsheba” • “In Old Chicago” • “Jesse James” • “Lloyd’s of London” • “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” • “Margie” • “Marie Galante” • “Prince of Foxes” • “Ramona” • “Seventh Heaven” • “Stanley and Livingstone” • “State Fair” • “Tender Is the Night” • “The Bravados” • “The Country Doctor” • “The Gunfighter” • “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” • “The Song of Bernadette” • “The Sun Also Rises” • “Twelve O’Clock High” • “Untamed” • “Wilson”

Photos


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George Marshall
American director
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
American director
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
Director Norman Taurog, wearing a hat and glasses, sits beside actor Mickey Rooney, who is smiling, on the set of the film Boys Town, with camera equipment visible behind them.
Norman Taurog
American director
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Anthony Mann
American director
John Sturges stands beside a film camera on the set of Bad Day at Black Rock, wearing sunglasses, a cap, and casual clothing.
John Sturges
American director
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
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Robert Z. Leonard
American director
John Ford
John Ford
American director
Sam Peckinpah wearing a patterned headband looks through a film camera viewfinder while directing Cross of Iron. Another crew member is partially visible in the background.
Sam Peckinpah
American director
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Roy Del Ruth
American filmmaker
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda
Charles Vidor
American director
John Wayne
John Wayne
American actor
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director