Charles Vidor

male, deceased (1959)
Jewish, Vidor Károly, A Song to Remember, A Farewell to Arms, The Swan, Vienna, Austria…Silent film, love me or leave me, film director, Gilda film director, The Joker film director
Charles Vidor was a film director. Born Vidor Károly to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, Vidor first came to prominence during the final y...

Victor Fleming

male
writer, film producer, film director, Cinematographer, second assistant director, died from heart attack…Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde film director, TheyDareNotLovefilmdirector, A Guy Named Joe film director, Joan of Arc film director, Adventure film director
Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and...

James Whale

male
writer, film director, Art director, Film editor, suicide by drowning, Dialogue Director…The Man in the Iron Mask film director, TheyDareNotLovefilmdirector, Green Hell film director
James Whale, who grew up poor in an English mining town, learned to put on plays in a World War I German prison camp. Postwar theatre work took him...