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King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979 he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator."〔(Award list for King Vidor )〕 He was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known films include ''The Big Parade'' (1925), ''The Crowd'' (1928), ''Stella Dallas'' (1937), and ''Duel in the Sun'' (1946). ==Early life and career== Vidor (pronounced "vee-dor") was born in Galveston, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Based on that experience, he published a fictionalized account of that cyclone, titled "Southern Storm", for the May 1935 issue of ''Esquire'' magazine. Erik Larson excerpts a passage from that article in his 2005 book, ''Isaac's Storm'': :''I remember now that it seemed as if we were in a bowl looking up toward the level of the sea. As we stood there in the sandy street, my mother and I, I wanted to take my mother's hand and hurry her away. I felt as if the sea was going to break over the edge of the bowl and come pouring down upon us.'' His grandfather, Károly (Charles) Vidor, was a refugee of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, who settled in Galveston in the early 1850s. A freelance newsreel cameraman and cinema projectionist, Vidor made his debut as a director in 1913 with ''The Grand Military Parade''. In Hollywood from 1915, he worked as a screenwriter and as director of a series of six short juvenile-delinquency films for Judge Willis Brown before directing his first feature, ''The Turn in the Road'', in 1919. A successful mounting of ''Peg o' My Heart'' in 1922 won him a long-term contract with Goldwyn Studios (later to be absorbed into MGM). Three years later he made ''The Big Parade'', among the most acclaimed war films of the silent era, and a tremendous commercial success. This success established him as one of MGM's top studio directors for the next decade. In 1928, Vidor received his first Oscar nomination, for ''The Crowd'', widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the greatest American silent films. In the same year, he made the classic ''Show People'', a comedy about the film industry starring Marion Davies (in which Vidor had a cameo as himself), and his much-loved screwball comedy ''The Patsy'', which also starred Davies and was his last silent film. Vidor's first sound film was ''Hallelujah!'', a groundbreaking film featuring an African-American cast. He had no difficulty adjusting to sound and he continued making feature films until the late 1950s. Some of his better known sound films include ''Stella Dallas'', ''Our Daily Bread'', ''The Citadel'', ''Duel in the Sun'', ''The Fountainhead'', and ''War and Peace''. He directed the Kansas sequences in ''The Wizard of Oz'' (including "Over the Rainbow" and the twister) when director Victor Fleming had to replace George Cukor on ''Gone with the Wind'', but did not receive screen credit. In 1962 he was head of the jury at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=12th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries )〕 In 1969 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=6th Moscow International Film Festival (1969) )〕 Vidor was entered in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' for the longest career as a film director: beginning in 1913 with ''Hurricane in Galveston'' and ending in 1980 with ''The Metaphor'', a 36-minute documentary featuring the painter Andrew Wyeth. He was nominated five times for an Oscar but never won in direct competition; he received an honorary award in 1979. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King Vidor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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