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Victor Fleming
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American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)
OverviewAI-generated
Victor Fleming was an American film director, producer, and cinematographer whose career began in 1910. Born in Pasadena on February 23, 1889, he worked in the directing department and had works included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He received the Academy Award for Best Director and holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Fleming died of a myocardial infarction in Cottonwood on January 6, 1949. He is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. While some records associate the name with audiobook and thriller genres or list works such as *Urban Jellyfish* and *We Hold These Truths*, these appear to refer to different individuals or data errors, as the primary biographical details align with the American filmmaker.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Urban Jellyfish
- Nutrition Diet for IT Men
- Make Money in a Day
- Windows Store Apps Jump Start
- We Hold These Truths
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · La Cañada, California, USA
Victor Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
Known for
- Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl — Self (archive footage)1999
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic — Self (archive footage)1990
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self1940
- Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks — Self1931
- When the Clouds Roll By — Himself1919
- Oz — Self (archive footage)
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1908-05-28
- Active to
- 1964-08-12
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 564
- Total plays
- 1,622
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Fleming holds the achievement of being the only film director to have two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's prestigious 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Victor+Fleming">Read
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,968x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- 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 15,964x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,246x
via Crossref · CC0
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were the historical drama Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and the fantasy film The Wizard of Oz (both 1939). Fleming has those same two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Victor Fleming” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.