Henry King

American film director (1886-1982)

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It sits within the topics 1886 births, 1982 deaths and 20th-century American male actors.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 32

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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso
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Theology and the Social Consciousness
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Inspiration Pictures, Inc. presents Henry King's Hell harbor, with Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1947-09-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,385
Total plays: 3,701

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
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The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
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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 15,951x
ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,424x

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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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Commons category: Henry King (director)
date of birth: 1886-01-24
date of death: 1982-06-29
name in native language: Henry King
Commons Creator page: Henry King (director)

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Encyclopedic overview

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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