King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894–November 1, 1982) was an American film director.

He was born in Galveston, Texas, and survived the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

A freelance newsreel cameraman and cinema projectionist , he made his debut as a director in 1913 with the two-reel film In Tow. In Hollywood from 1915, he worked on a variety of film-related jobs before directing a feature film, The Turn of the Road in 1919. A successful mounting of Peg o' My Heart in 1922 got him a long term contract with MGM. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he received an honorary award in 1979.

He directed his last film, a documentary called The Metaphor, in 1980.

Selected Filmography

• The Jack Knife Man 1920
• The Sky Pilot 1921
• Peg 'o My Heart 1922
• The Big Parade 1925
• The Crowd 1928
• The Champ 1931
• Our Daily Bread 1934
• Comrade X 1940
• Northwest Passage 1940
• Duel in the Sun 1946
• The Fountainhead, 1949
• Ruby Gentry 1952
• War and Peace 1956
• Solomon and Sheba 1959

External links

• Vidor, King Wallis in the Handbook of Texas Online