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Raoul Walsh
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Director, Screenwriter Born: March 11, 1887 in New York City, NY Death: December 31, 1980 Biography:One of Hollywood's most prolific and respected action directors, "Raoul Walsh" was also one of the longest-lived figures in film, with a career that spanned almost a half-century. After running away from home as a boy and working in a variety of capacities, including as a cowboy in the West, Walsh drifted into stage acting in New York and later into motion pictures as an actor. He became an assistant director to "D.W. Griffith" and, in 1914, made his first movie. By the mid 1920s, Walsh had a reputation for direct, straightforward, no frills narrative, and his style was particularly suited to action films and outdoor dramas, although his biggest film of that decade was the fantasy epic "The Thief of Bagdad", produced by and starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., which continues to be shown seven decades later. His work in the 1930s, mostly for 20th Century-Fox, embraced comedy and drama in equal measure,... Full Biography
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