1951Nominee
Best Director
Distant Drums
Raoul Walsh
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
New York City, New York, USA
March 11, 1887
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and White Heat (1949) with James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. His last directorial effort came in 1964. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raoul Walsh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1955Nominee
Best Director
The Tall Men
1915Nominee
Best Performance
The Birth of a Nation
Career Highlights
1949Highlight
Best Director
White Heat
1951Highlight
Best Director
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
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Distant Drums
The Tall Men
The Birth of a Nation