FILM DIRECTOR

King Vidor

1894 - 1982

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King Wallis Vidor (; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras. His works are distinguished by a vivid, humane, and sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of King Vidor has received more than 947,425 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. King Vidor is the 324th most popular film director (down from 304th in 2019), the 2,053rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,010th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Film Director.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, King Vidor ranks 324 out of 2,041. Before him are Adolph Zukor, Dušan Makavejev, Yuen Woo-ping, Marc Allégret, Francis Veber, and Anatole Litvak. After him are Steven Soderbergh, Garry Marshall, Leo McCarey, George Roy Hill, Jane Campion, and Gustav Ucicky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, King Vidor ranks 68. Before him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Thorleif Haug, Hans Langsdorff, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Frank Borzage, and Wilhelm Schepmann. After him are Mei Lanfang, Georges Gurvitch, T. V. Soong, E. E. Cummings, Fritz Freitag, and Albert Leo Schlageter. Among people deceased in 1982, King Vidor ranks 79. Before him are Tadj ol-Molouk, Jakov Gotovac, Leonid Kogan, Wifredo Lam, Werner Naumann, and Roberto Calvi. After him are Henry King, Jean Girault, Djuna Barnes, Pavel Alexandrov, Valerio Zurlini, and Bess Truman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, King Vidor ranks 2,053 out of 20,380. Before him are Ward Cunningham (1949), Tina Aumont (1946), Barbara Liskov (1939), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Ry Cooder (1947), and Tim Allen (1953). After him are Warren Christopher (1925), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), James Bowie (1796), Marisa Tomei (1964), and Ashley Judd (1968).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, King Vidor ranks 84. Before him are Michael Bay (1965), Stanley Kramer (1913), Jim Henson (1936), Paul Schrader (1946), Frank Borzage (1894), and Darren Aronofsky (1969). After him are Steven Soderbergh (1963), Garry Marshall (1934), Leo McCarey (1898), George Roy Hill (1921), Samuel Fuller (1912), and Sofia Coppola (1971).

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Filmography

The Wizard of Oz
Director
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Aug 15o 19397.589 / 10
War and Peace
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Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Aug 21o 19566.6 / 10
The Crowd
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John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Mar 3o 19287.579 / 10