
King Vidor
Highest Rated: 100% The Big Parade (1925)
Lowest Rated: 14% Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Birthday: Feb 8, 1894
Birthplace: Galveston, Texas, USA
King Vidor's films range across all genres, but they are unified by a concern with the struggle for selfhood in a pluralistic, mass society. Influenced both by D.W. Griffith's realism and Sergei Eisenstein's montage aesthetic, Vidor has come closer to reconciling these strains than any other American director.
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Filmography
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No Score Yet | 43% | Hollywood Mavericks | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love and Money | Walter Klein (Character) | - | 1982 |
14% | 56% | Solomon and Sheba | Director | - | 1959 |
50% | 63% | War and Peace |
Director, Writer |
- | 1956 |
100% | 62% | Man Without a Star | Director | - | 1955 |
63% | 50% | Ruby Gentry |
Director, Producer |
- | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Japanese War Bride | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lightning Strikes Twice | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Beyond the Forest | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 30% | It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
83% | 74% | The Fountainhead | Director | - | 1949 |
20% | 36% | On Our Merry Way | Director | - | 1948 |
76% | 55% | Duel in the Sun | Director | - | 1946 |
86% | 40% | An American Romance | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 68% | H.M. Pulham, Esq. |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Comrade X |
Director, Producer |
- | 1940 |
100% | 68% | Northwest Passage | Director | - | 1940 |
89% | 74% | The Citadel | Director | - | 1938 |
90% | 83% | Stella Dallas | Director | - | 1937 |
79% | 72% | The Texas Rangers | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wedding Night | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 78% | So Red the Rose | Director | - | 1935 |
85% | 66% | Our Daily Bread |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Stranger's Return | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Cynara | Director | - | 1932 |
53% | 45% | Bird of Paradise | Director | - | 1932 |
96% | 75% | The Champ | Director | - | 1931 |
89% | 71% | Street Scene | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Billy the Kid | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Highwayman Rides | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Not So Dumb |
Director, Producer |
- | 1930 |
86% | 56% | Hallelujah |
Director, Writer |
- | 1929 |
92% | 88% | Show People | Director | - | 1928 |
96% | 90% | The Crowd |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1928 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Patsy |
Director, Producer |
- | 1928 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Bardelys the Magnificent | Director | - | 1926 |
No Score Yet | 77% | La Bohème |
Director, Producer |
- | 1926 |
100% | 91% | The Big Parade | Director | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Proud Flesh | Director | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Wild Oranges |
Director, Writer |
- | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happiness | Director | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peg O' My Heart | Director | - | 1923 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sky Pilot | Director | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Never Dies | Director | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jack-Knife Man |
Director, Producer |
- | 1920 |