Raoul Walsh

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Raoul Walsh (11 de marzo de 1887 – 31 de diciembre de 1980) fue un director de cine estadounidense.

[editar] Su carrera

Walsh comenzó su carrera como actor de teatro en New York, y rápidamente se convirtió en intérprete cinematográfico. En 1914 empezó a trabajar como asistente de D.W. Griffith y filmó su primer largometraje, .

Walsh es uno de los fundadores de la Academia de las Artes y de las Ciencias Cinematográficas. Su hermano fue el actor George Walsh.

[editar] Películas

• The Life of General Villa (1914),
• Regeneration (1915)
• Evangeline (1919)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• What Price Glory? (1926)
• Sadie Thompson (1928)
• In Old Arizona (1929)
• The Big Trail (1930)
• Klondike Annie (1936)
• The Roaring Twenties (1939)
• Dark Command (1940)
• They Drive by Night (1940)
• El último refujio (1941)
• Murieron con las botas puestas (1941)
• Jornadas desesperadas (1942)
• Northern Pursuit (1943)
• Pursued (1947)
• Al rojo vivo (1949)
• Juntos hasta la muerte(film) ó Colorado Territory | (1949)
• El hidalgo de los mares (1951)
• El mundo en sus manos (1951)
• Tambores lejanos (1951)
• Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
• The Tall Men (1955)
• Un rey para cuatro reinas (1956)
• 'Band of Angels' (1957)
• Esther and the King (1960)
• Marines, Let's Go (1961)
• Una trompeta lejana (1964)

También es el co director de junto a Humphrey Bogart en 1951.

Like his contemporary Howard Hawks, Walsh was known for never letting the facts get in the way of a good story. Leonard Maltin has described Walsh's autobiography as "entertaining fiction with an occasional nod at the truth".

Some Raoul Walsh trivia:

There are echoes in Walsh's films of events in his own life and that of his family: as a child his parents entertained famous Broadway actor of the day Edwin Thomas Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth whom Walsh was later to play in The Birth of a Nation (1915); in They Died with Their Boots On (1941) there is an actor playing a bit part as a tailor to the US cavalry officers that might have been a reference to Walsh's father who made uniforms for General Custer and other high-ranking officers before becoming chief designer for Brooks Brothers in New York.

He was quite a character; in 1942, a few days after John Barrymore had died, Walsh, as a practical joke, picked up Barrymore's body from the mortuary and managed to sit the body in a chair clad in business suit in Errol Flynn's home before Flynn arrived home.

James Cagney once said to Walsh: 'Each man in his time plays many different parts. You have played them all' which suggested the title for Walsh's autobiography, Each Man in his Time published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in 1974.

[editar] Enlaces externos

• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database