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Henry King (Christiansburg, 24 de enero de 1886 – Toluca Lake, 29 de junio de 1982) fue un director de cine estadounidense. Afamado ya en la época del cine mudo, logró adecuarse muy bien al sonoro (y al color), convirtiéndose en un director de referencia.
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Henry King. (Christianburg, 1892 - Toluca Lake, 1982) Director de cine norteamericano. Atraído desde muy joven por el mundo del espectáculo, el circo, el vodevil y el teatro fueron los escenarios de sus primeros pasos artísticos, de donde pasó al cine en 1913, interviniendo como actor y escribiendo algunos argumentos para las producciones ...
Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and directed seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture .
- Overview
- Early work
- Films of the 1930s
- Films of the 1940s
- Later films
Henry King (born January 24, 1886, Christiansburg, Virginia, U.S.—died June 29, 1982, Toluca Lake, California) American film director who was a respected craftsman known for his versatility. His more than 100 movies, many of which focused on Americana, included westerns, literary adaptations, and historical dramas.
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King acted in road shows, in vaudeville, and onstage before making his first film appearance in 1913; he eventually appeared in more than 100 shorts and features. In 1915 King began directing, and his early notable silent credits included the hit comedy 231/2 Hours Leave (1919), about life in the military, and Tol’able David (1921), a melodrama abo...
King joined Fox (later Twentieth Century-Fox) in 1930 and stayed there until he retired more than 30 years later. His first major sound film was State Fair (1933), with Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, and Janet Gaynor. A critical and commercial success, the film offered a sentimental look at American life, a theme King explored in many of his later productions. In 1934 he directed Spencer Tracy in Marie Galante, a popular thriller about a plot to blow up the Panama Canal. The following year King had a minor hit with the Depression-era One More Spring. Less impressive was Way Down East (1935), a remake of D.W. Griffith’s 1920 film, with Henry Fonda.
King rebounded in 1936 with a series of successful films, beginning with The Country Doctor, a novelty biopic about the Dionne quintuplets; Jean Hersholt starred as the doctor who gained a moment of fame when he delivered the babies. Ramona, an adaptation of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel, was a light but popular Technicolor romance starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche as star-crossed Native American lovers. King ended 1936 with one of the year’s biggest hits, Lloyd’s of London, an entertaining account of the famous British insurance firm’s rise; the epic starred Freddie Bartholomew along with Tyrone Power in the first of his many collaborations with King. The director had less success with Seventh Heaven (1937), a romantic drama featuring a miscast James Stewart as a Parisian sewer worker and Simone Simon as a prostitute who falls in love with him.
King then made a series of Americana films. In Old Chicago (1937) was a fine period effort set shortly before the city’s devastating 1871 fire; the cast included Power, Ameche, and Alice Faye. The drama earned six Academy Award nominations, including a nod for best picture. King next directed the musical Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938), featuring Power, Ameche, Faye, and Ethel Merman, with songs by Irving Berlin. It also received an Oscar nomination for best picture. Now hitting his stride, King made Jesse James (1939), one of Power’s best vehicles; the biopic about the famed outlaw had a noteworthy supporting cast that included Fonda, Randolph Scott, and Jane Darwell. King turned away from the United States with the period adventure Stanley and Livingstone (1939), a colourful account of reporter Henry M. Stanley (played by Tracy) and his quest through Africa to find long-lost missionary David Livingstone (Cedric Hardwicke).
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Continuing with Americana, in 1940 King made Little Old New York, a stiff account of the life of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton; Maryland, a horse-racing drama; and Chad Hanna, a 19th-century circus yarn starring Fonda, Darnell, and Dorothy Lamour. Next was the hugely popular A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), a World War II drama about a callow American pilot (Power) in London who reunites with a former girlfriend (Betty Grable) and then joins the Royal Air Force to impress her. The sentimental Remember the Day (1941) centres on a teacher (Claudette Colbert) who inspires one of her students to later run for president.
In 1942 King shifted gears to make The Black Swan, a first-rate swashbuckler based on a Rafael Sabatini novel. Power portrayed a buccaneer, and Maureen O’Hara was his love interest. The director then ventured into religious dramas with The Song of Bernadette (1943), an adaptation of Franzel Werfel’s best-selling book about a girl in Lourdes, France, who has visions of the Virgin Mary. The movie was a huge critical and commercial success. Jennifer Jones won the Academy Award for best actress; King received his first nomination for directing; and the film was nominated for best picture. However, King’s next biopic, the expensive Wilson (1944), was a major box-office disappointment, despite critical acclaim. The film, an account of Woodrow Wilson’s life, earned King his second Oscar nomination.
King elicited another strong performance from Peck in the downbeat western The Gunfighter (1950). Although a box-office disappointment, the film is regarded as a classic, credited with introducing the “psychological western.” King and Peck then worked together on David and Bathsheba (1951), a popular entry in the biblical-epic genre, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952). The latter was based on Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a famous writer (played by Peck) who is fatally injured while hunting big game in Africa and reflects back on his life; the supporting cast included Hayward and Ava Gardner. King reteamed with Power on both King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) and Untamed (1955), the latter a romantic drama set in South Africa, with Power portraying a Boer commander and Hayward as the woman he loves.
In 1955 King registered his biggest hit of the decade, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, a rare venture by the director into contemporary romance. It starred Jones and William Holden as a widowed doctor and a journalist, respectively, who fall in love in Hong Kong. The film received eight Oscar nominations, and its wins included best song for the popular theme. Carousel (1956), an adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway musical, was another huge success. It starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. In 1957 King revisited Hemingway’s work, adapting the novel The Sun Also Rises. King’s solid production was especially notable for featuring Errol Flynn in one of his final performances.
- Michael Barson
Actor. Director. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. For more than three decades, Henry King was the most versatile and reliable (not to mention hard-working) contract director on the 20th Century-Fox lot. His tenure lasted from 1930 to 1961, spanning most of Hollywood's "golden" era.
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