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Raoul Walsh is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Director of Photography and Editor American born on 11 march 1887 at New York City (USA)

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Birth name Albert Edward Walsh
Nationality USA
Birth 11 march 1887 at New York City (USA)
Death 31 december 1980 (at 93 years) at Simi Valley (USA)

Raoul A. 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 The Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne, 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.

Biography

Life
Walsh was born in New York as Albert Edward Walsh to Elizabeth T. Bruff, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants and Thomas W. Walsh, an Englishman. Like his younger brother, he was part of Omega Gamma Delta during his high school days. Growing up in New York, Walsh was also a friend of the Barrymore family. John Barrymore recalled spending time reading in the Walsh family library as a youth. Later in life he lived in Palm Springs, California. Upon his death he was buried at Assumption Catholic Cemetery, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California.

Film career
Walsh began as a stage actor in New York City, quickly progressing into film acting. He was educated at Seton Hall College and began acting in 1909. In 1914 he became an assistant to D.W. Griffith and made his first full-length feature film, The Life of General Villa, shot on location in Mexico with Pancho Villa playing the lead and with actual ongoing battles filmed in progress as well as recreations (events dramatized in the 2003 film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, with Kyle Chandler playing Walsh). Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith's epic The Birth of a Nation (1915), and also served as an assistant director. This was followed by the critically acclaimed Regeneration in 1915, possibly the earliest feature gangster film, shot on location in Manhattan's Bowery district. Walsh served as an officer in the United States Army during World War I. He later directed The Thief of Bagdad (1924) starring Douglas Fairbanks and Anna May Wong and What Price Glory? (1926) starring Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Río.

In Sadie Thompson (1928), starring Gloria Swanson as a prostitute seeking a new life in Samoa, Walsh starred as Swanson's boyfriend in his first acting role since 1915; he also directed the film. He was then hired to direct and star in In Old Arizona, a film about O. Henry's character the Cisco Kid. While on location for that film Walsh suffered a car accident in which he lost his right eye when a jackrabbit jumped through a windshield as he was driving through the desert. He gave up the part (but not the directing job) and never acted again; Warner Baxter won an Oscar for the role Walsh was originally slated to play. Walsh would wear an eyepatch for the rest of his life.

In the early days of sound with Fox, Walsh directed the first widescreen spectacle, The Big Trail (1930), an epic wagon train western shot on location across the West. The movie starred then unknown John Wayne, whom Walsh discovered as prop boy Marion Morrison and renamed after Revolutionary War general Mad Anthony Wayne, about whom Walsh happened to be reading in a book at the time. Walsh directed The Bowery (1933), featuring Wallace Beery, George Raft, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton; the energetic movie recounts the story of Steve Brodie (Raft), the first man to supposedly jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live to brag about it.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties (1939) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Dark Command (1940) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers (at Republic Pictures); They Drive By Night (1940) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Lupino and Bogart again; They Died with Their Boots On (1941) with Errol Flynn as Custer; The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with Cagney and Olivia de Havilland; Manpower (1941) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich and George Raft; and White Heat (1949) with Cagney. Walsh's contract at Warners expired in 1953.

He directed several films afterwards, including three with Clark Gable: The Tall Men (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956) and Band of Angels (1957). Walsh retired in 1964.

Some of Raoul Walsh's film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.

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(1945)
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(1951)
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(1928)
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(1945)
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Usually with

James A. Marcus
(20 films)

Carl Harbaugh
(30 films)

Miriam Cooper
(19 films)

D. W. Griffith
(2 films)

George Walsh
(20 films)

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Filmography of Raoul Walsh (154 films)

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Year	Name	Job	Roles
1970	The Delta Factor	Scriptwriter
1964	A Distant Trumpet	Director
1964	36 Hours	Scriptwriter
1961	Come September	Producer
1961	Marines, Let's Go	Director, Story, Producer
1960	Esther and the King	Director, Writer, Producer
1959	The FBI Story	Director
1959	A Private's Affair	Director
1958	The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw	Director
1958	The Naked and the Dead	Director
1957	Band of Angels	Director
1956	The Revolt of Mamie Stover	Director
1956	Helen of Troy	Director
1956	The King and Four Queens	Director
1955	The Tall Men	Director
1955	Battle Cry	Director, Producer
1954	Saskatchewan	Director
1953	Sea Devils	Director
1953	A Lion Is in the Streets	Director
1953	Gun Fury	Director
1952	Blackbeard, the Pirate	Director
1952	Glory Alley	Director
1952	The Lawless Breed	Director
1952	The World in His Arms	Director
1951	Distant Drums	Director
1951	On Moonlight Bay	Director
1951	Along the Great Divide	Director
1951	Captain Horatio Hornblower	Director
1951	The Enforcer	Director
1950	Montana	Director
1949	White Heat	Director
1949	It's a Great Feeling	Actor	Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
1949	Colorado Territory	Director
1948	Fighter Squadron	Director
1948	One Sunday Afternoon	Director
1948	Silver River	Director
1947	Cheyenne	Director
1947	The Man I Love	Director
1947	Pursued	Director
1947	Stallion Road	Director
1945	The Horn Blows at Midnight	Director
1945	Objective, Burma!	Director
1945	Salty O'Rourke	Director
1945	San Antonio	Director
1944	Uncertain Glory	Director
1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Director
1943	Background to Danger	Director
1943	Edge of Darkness	Director
1943	Northern Pursuit	Director
1942	They Died with Their Boots On	Director
1942	Desperate Journey	Director
1942	Gentleman Jim	Director
1941	The Strawberry Blonde	Director
1941	High Sierra	Director
1941	Manpower	Director
1940	Dark Command	Director
1940	They Drive by Night	Director
1939	St. Louis Blues	Director
1939	The Roaring Twenties	Director
1938	College Swing	Director
1937	Artists & Models	Director
1937	Hitting a New High	Director
1937	When Thief Meets Thief	Director
1937	O.H.M.S.	Director
1936	Big Brown Eyes	Director,
1936	Klondike Annie	Director
1936	Spendthrift	Director, Writer
1935	Under Pressure	Director
1935	Every Night at Eight	Director
1935	Baby Face Harrington	Director
1933	The Bowery	Director
1933	Going Hollywood	Director
1933	Hello, Sister!	Director
1933	Sailor's Luck	Director
1932	Me and My Gal	Director
1932	Wild Girl	Director
1931	The Man Who Came Back	Director, Producer
1931	The Yellow Ticket	Director, Producer
1931	Women of All Nations	Director
1930	The Big Trail	Director, Story
1929	The Cock-Eyed World	Director, Writer
1929	Hot for Paris	Director, Story
1928	Sadie Thompson	Actor, Director, Adaptation, Producer	Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara
1928	In Old Arizona	Director
1928	The Red Dance	Director
1928	Me, Gangster	Director, Scriptwriter
1927	The Loves of Carmen	Director
1927	The Monkey Talks	Director
1926	What Price Glory	Director
1926	The Lucky Lady	Director, Producer
1926	The Lady of the Harem	Director
1925	The Wanderer	Director
1925	The Spaniard	Director
1925	East of Suez	Director
1924	The Thief of Bagdad	Director
1923	Rosita	Director, Co-Director
1923	Lost and Found on a South Sea Island	Director
1922	Kindred of the Dust	Director, Producer
1921	The Oath	Director
1921	Serenade	Director
1920	Headin' Home	Actor	Supervisor
1920	The Deep Purple	Director, Producer
1920	The Strongest	Director, Scenario Writer
1920	From Now On	Director, Scriptwriter
1919	Evangeline	Director, Scenario Writer
1919	Should a Husband Forgive?	Director, Scriptwriter
1918	The Prussian Cur	Director, Story
1918	On the Jump	Director, Story
1918	The Woman and the Law	Director, Writer
1918	I'll Say So	Director
1918	Every Mother's Son	Director, Scriptwriter
1917	The Silent Lie	Director
1917	Betrayed	Director, Scriptwriter
1917	The Conqueror	Director, Writer
1917	The Honor System	Director, Scenario Writer
1917	The Innocent Sinner	Director, Scriptwriter
1917	This Is the Life	Director, Scriptwriter
1917	The Pride of New York	Director, Scriptwriter
1917	The Conqueror	Director, Writer
1916	The Serpent	Director, Scenario Writer
1916	Blue Blood and Red	Director, Scriptwriter
1916	Pillars of Society	Director
1916	Pillars of Society	Director
1915	The Birth of a Nation	Actor, Director, Assistant Director, Editor	John Wilkes Booth
1915	The Outlaw's Revenge	Actor
1915	Carmen	Director, Scenario Writer
1915	The Regeneration	Director, Writer
1915	A Bad Man and Others	Director
1915	The Buried Hand	Director
1915	The Death Dice	Director
1915	The Greaser	Actor, Director
1915	The Lone Cowboy	Director
1915	Siren of Hell	Director
1915	11:30 P.M.	Director
1915	A Man for All That	Actor, Director
1915	The Celestial Code	Director
1915	The Fatal Black Bean	Actor, Director
1915	Khin cho's First Movie	Director
1915	His Return	Director
1915	The Comeback	Director
1915	The Smuggler	Actor, Director
1915	Peer Gynt	Director
1914	The Angel of Contention	Actor	Jack Colter
1914	The Life of General Villa	Actor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Villa as a young man
1914	The Rebellion of Kitty Belle	Actor	Bud Parker
1914	The Bowery	Director
1914	The Double Knot	Actor, Director
1914	The Mystery of the Hindu Image	Actor, Director	The Detective
1914	His Return	Director
1914	The Only Clue	Actor
1914	Who Shot Bud Walton?	Actor, Director
1914	Home from the Sea	Actor, Director
1913	The Detective's Stratagem	Actor	Gang's Driver (unconfirmed)
1913	The Pseudo Prodigal	Actor, Director