Charles Vidor

Birthday:

07/26/1900

Place of birth:

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]:

Biography:

Charles Vidor (July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a film director. Born Károly Vidor to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I. He first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his film successes are The Bridge (1929), Cover Girl (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Swan (1956), The Joker Is Wild (1957), and A Farewell to Arms (1957). He was married four times, to Frances Varone (1927–1931), actress Karen Morley (1932–1943), actress Evelyn Keyes (1943–1945), and Doris Warner (1945-1959, until his death), daughter of Warner Bros. President Harry Warner.



Credits

Song Without End (1960)
Director
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Director
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
Director
The Swan (1956)
Director
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Director
Rhapsody (1954)
Director
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Director
Thunder in the East (1952)
Director
It's a Big Country (1951)
Director
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Director
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Producer
Gilda (1946)
Director
Over 21 (1945)
Director
A Song to Remember (1945)
Director
Together Again (1944)
Director
Cover Girl (1944)
Director
The Desperadoes (1943)
Director
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Director
New York Town (1941)
Director
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Director
The Lady in Question (1940)
Director
My Son, My Son! (1940)
Director
Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Director
Blind Alley (1939)
Director
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
Director
She's No Lady (1937)
Director
The Great Gambini (1937)
Director
A Doctor's Diary (1937)
Director
Muss 'em Up (1936)
Director
His Family Tree (1935)
Director
The Arizonian (1935)
Director
Strangers All (1935)
Director
Double Door (1934)
Director
Sensation Hunters (1933)
Director
Me and My Gal (1932)
Writer
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Producer
Good Sport (1931)
Writer
The Bridge (1929)
Director
The Bridge (1929)
Screenplay