Henry King
Sign in to saveAmerican film director (1886-1982)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1886-01-24
- Died
- 1982-06-29
- Works
- 32
Top works
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso
- Autonomous
- Theology and the Social Consciousness
- Christ and Buddha
- Inspiration Pictures, Inc. presents Henry King's Hell harbor, with Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland
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Film & TV
Directing · Christiansburg, Virginia, United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American film director. Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s. He was…
Known for
- Hollywood — Self1980
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)1925
- Help Wanted - Male — Tubbs1920
- Hearts or Diamonds?1918
- The Locked Heart — Harry Mason1918
- Sunshine and Gold — The Chauffeur1917
- The Devil's Bait — Eric Reese1917
- Little Mary Sunshine — Bob Daley1916
- Twin Kiddies — Jasper Hunt1916
- The Nemesis1915
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,385
- Total plays
- 3,701
Tags
comedy
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,891x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,472x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,324x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,585x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1886-01-24 ) January 24, 1886, Christiansburg, Virginia , U.S.
- Died
- June 29, 1982 (1982-06-29) (aged 96), Toluca Lake, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor, film director
- Spouses
- Gypsy Abbott ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1915 ; died 1952 ) Ida ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ) (died 2001)
- Relatives
- Louis King (brother)
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Key dates
- Born
- 24 January 1886
- Died
- 29 June 1982
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Family name
- King
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Christiansburg
- Place of death
- Toluca Lake
- Spouse
- Gypsy Abbott
- Sibling
- Louis King
- Occupation
- director
Article
Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and directed seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres and first started to take small film roles in 1912. Between 1913 and 1925, he appeared as an actor in approximately sixty films. He directed for the first time in 1915 and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and '30s. He was twice nominated for the Best Director Oscar. In 1944, he was awarded the first Golden Globe Award for Best Director for his film The Song of Bernadette. He worked most often with Tyrone Power and Gregory Peck and for 20th Century Fox.
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