
Raoul Walsh
Highest Rated: 100% The World in His Arms (1952)
Lowest Rated: 40% Band of Angels (1957)
Birthday: Mar 11, 1887
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
With a film career spanning more than half a century, director Raoul Walsh was a highly prolific filmmaker capable of helming quality motion pictures in a wide array of genres that demonstrated a simple but straightforward style. Starting his career as an actor during the silent era - which he continued sporadically thereafter - Walsh struggled to find his footing as a director until helming "The Roaring Twenties" (1939) for Warner Bros., which commenced a fruitful 15-year career that saw his best work come to light. Walsh worked often with some of Hollywood's top talent - Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Humphrey Bogart and Rita Hayworth - on films like "High Sierra" (1941), "Gentlemen Jim" (1942), "Objective, Burma!" (1945) and "Colorado Territory" (1949). He made the archetypal gangster film, "White Heat" (1949) with Cagney, which served as an influence on countless heist movies made years later. But Walsh's fertile period came to an end when his contract at Warner Bros. was up in 1953. He went on to direct notable films like "The Tall Men" (1955) and "Band of Angels" (1957), but nothing that matched his heyday of the previous decades. Despite the 1950s drop off, Walsh's long and productive career marked him for consideration among the best craftsman at work during Hollywood's golden era.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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50% | 44% | A Distant Trumpet | Director | - | 1964 |
80% | 78% | Come September | Producer | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marines, Let's Go |
Director, Producer |
- | 1961 |
40% | 30% | Esther and the King |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Private's Affair | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 46% | The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | Director | - | 1958 |
83% | 35% | The Naked and the Dead | Director | - | 1958 |
40% | 65% | Band of Angels | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 56% | The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 35% | The King and Four Queens | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Battle Cry |
Director, Producer |
- | 1955 |
83% | 61% | The Tall Men | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Saskatchewan | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Sea Devils | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Gun Fury | Director | - | 1953 |
80% | 12% | A Lion Is in the Streets | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 60% | The Lawless Breed |
Director, Producer |
- | 1953 |
100% | 58% | The World in His Arms | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Blackbeard, the Pirate | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Glory Alley | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Along the Great Divide | Director | - | 1951 |
100% | 78% | Captain Horatio Hornblower |
Director, Producer |
- | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Distant Drums | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Colorado Territory | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 25% | It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
97% | 93% | White Heat | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Sunday Afternoon | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Silver River | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Fighter Squadron | Director | - | 1948 |
100% | 81% | Pursued | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Cheyenne | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Man I Love | Director | - | 1946 |
67% | 66% | The Horn Blows at Midnight | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Objective, Burma! | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Salty O'Rourke | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Uncertain Glory | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Background to Danger | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Northern Pursuit | Director | - | 1943 |
67% | 67% | Desperate Journey | Director | - | 1942 |
100% | 86% | Gentleman Jim | Director | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Manpower | Director | - | 1941 |
100% | 73% | The Strawberry Blonde | Director | - | 1941 |
90% | 78% | High Sierra | Director | - | 1941 |
82% | 75% | They Died With Their Boots On | Director | - | 1941 |
92% | 71% | They Drive by Night | Director | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 71% | The Dark Command | Director | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | St. Louis Blues | Director | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best of the Blues |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1939 |
100% | 89% | The Roaring Twenties | Director | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 56% | College Swing | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Artists and Models | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When Thief Meets Thief | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitting a New High | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You're in the Army Now | Director | - | 1937 |
83% | 61% | Big Brown Eyes | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Klondike Annie | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spendthrift |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Every Night at Eight | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Face Harrington | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under Pressure | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sailor's Luck | Director | - | 1933 |
80% | 50% | Going Hollywood | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Bowery | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Girl | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Me and My Gal | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women of All Nations | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yellow Ticket |
Director, Producer |
- | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Came Back |
Director, Producer |
- | 1931 |
100% | 70% | The Big Trail | Director | - | 1930 |
56% | 37% | In Old Arizona | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cockeyed World | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Dance | Director | - | 1928 |
83% | 72% | Sadie Thompson |
Sergeant Timothy "Tim" O'Hara (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1928 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Loves of Carmen | Director | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monkey Talks | Director | - | 1927 |
100% | 77% | What Price Glory? | Director | - | 1926 |
96% | 82% | The Thief of Bagdad | Director | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kindred of the Dust |
Director, Producer |
- | 1922 |
93% | 55% | The Birth of a Nation |
John Wilkes Booth (uncredited) (Character), Film Editor, Assistant Director |
- | 1915 |
100% | 65% | The Regeneration |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1915 |
78% | No Score Yet | Carmen |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1915 |
80% | No Score Yet | The Life of General Villa | Unknown (Character) | - | 1914 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Little Country Mouse | The Designing Guest (Character) | - | 1914 |
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