Raoul Walsh

See also: Walsh

Raoul Walsh is an American realizer born the March 11th 1892 with New York and deceased the December 31st 1980 with Simi Valley in California (the United States).

Walsh began its artistic career like Acteur in New York, quickly becoming film actor. In 1914 he became the assistant of D.W. Griffith and worked in collaboration with him with the Twentieth Century Fox until in 1928. With the Paramount Pictures in the Years 1930 it diriga of the high-speed motorboats like James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn before joining the Warner Bros. Entertainment at the beginning of the Years 1940. Its contract in Warner expired in 1953 and it took its retirement in 1964.

He was a founding member of the “Academy off Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” (AMPAS).

Walsh lost an eye in an car accident during turning of In old Arizona in 1929.

He was the brother of the actor George Walsh.

It also Co-directed with Humphrey Bogart in a nonofficial way the Woman to cut down (The Enforcer) in 1951.

Like its contemporary Howard Hawks, Walsh was known never not to let reality disturb a good story. Leonard Maltin described the autobiography of Walsh like a " fiction of entertainment with possibly of the concessions to the vérité".

Apart from his enormous cinematograpic work, Raoul Walsh is also the author of two books, a novel ( the anger of right the , 1972) and a book of memories “Each man in his time” ( One half-century in Hollywood , 1974).

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