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Biography of Charles Shelton Vidor (from American Lumberman magazine, 1910) Source: “Peach River Pine”, American Lumberman, October 8, 1910. Chicago, 1910.
Vidor was born into a well-to-do family in Galveston, Texas, the son of Kate (née Wallis) and Charles Shelton Vidor, a lumber importer and mill owner. His grandfather, Károly Charles Vidor, was a refugee of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, who settled in Galveston in the early 1850s.
- King W. Vidor
- February 8, 1894, Galveston, Texas, U.S.
- 1913–1980
- November 1, 1982 (aged 88), Paso Robles, California, U.S.
25 de mar. de 2021 · Before long, they married and set off for Hollywood together. It wasn’t exactly the career path envisioned by Vidor’s father, Charles Shelton Vidor, who had hoped his only son would take over his lumber business. The business prospered for a while—even resulting in the East Texas town of Vidor being named for C.S. Vidor.
King Wallis Vidor was born February 8, 1894, in Galveston, Texas, to Charles Shelton and Katie Lee (Wallis) Vidor. The son of a prosperous lumber merchant, Vidor saw his first movie, A Trip to the Moon, at age fifteen, and later worked a summer job as a ticket taker and relief projectionist at Galveston’s first movie theatre.
- Vidor, King, 1894-1982
- King Vidor Collection
- 1924-1941 (bulk 1941)
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1849-1849).
- February 8, 1894
- November 1, 1982
The City Of Vidor, Texas. Located near the scenic Neches River, the City of Vidor, in Orange County, was incorporated in 1960 and became a home rule city in 1967. Vidor takes its name from Charles Shelton Vidor of Galveston, a co-founder of the Miller-Vidor Timber Co. on the site of the present city. Lumber was the community’s chief industry ...
Vidor was six years old when the hurricane hit Galveston Island on September 8, 1900. He describes watching the storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico and being trapped for several days in a flooded house near the beach. Killing over 6,000 people and decimating the city, the hurricane remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.