Raoul Walsh

1887-1980

Biography: life and films

Raoul Walsh was an American film director and actor. He was born in New York City, New York, USA on 11th March 1887 and died in Simi Valley, California, USA on 31st December 1980, aged 93.

His best films as a film director include Sadie Thompson (1928), The Big Trail (1930), Going Hollywood (1933), The Roaring Twenties (1939) and White Heat (1949), and whose best work as a screenwriter include The Mystery of the Hindu Image (1914), Regeneration (1915), Sadie Thompson (1928), The Big Trail (1930) and Spendthrift (1936).

Raoul Walsh directed 138 films (including 18 shorts), scripted 44 films, appeared in 29 films and was cinematographer on 1 film.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Christy Cabanne (5 films), John B. O'Brien (4) and (3).

His most frequent genres include: drama (92 films), Western (27), comedy (22), romance (17), War (16), comedy-romance (9), comedy-drama (9), Thriller (9), Biography (7), crime-thriller (5), history (4) and Fantasy (3).

Our average rating for Raoul Walsh over all films is: 2.7

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer; c = cinematographer

The Banker's Daughter (1914) [a]

The Bowery (1914) [d,w]

The Dishonored Medal (1914) [a]

The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part (1914) [a]

The Life of General Villa (1914) [a,d,c]

Peer Gynt (1915) [d]

Regeneration (1915) [d,w]

Siren of Hell (1915) [d,w]

The Buried Hand (1915) [d,w]

The Outlaw's Revenge (1915) [a]

Blue Blood and Red (1916) [d,w]

Pillars of Society (1916) [d]

The Serpent (1916) [d,w]

Betrayed (1917) [d,w]

The Conqueror (1917) [d,w]

The Honor System (1917) [d,w]

The Innocent Sinner (1917) [d,w]

The Pride of New York (1917) [d,w]

The Silent Lie (1917) [d]

This Is the Life (1917) [d,w]

Every Mother's Son (1918) [d,w]

I'll Say So (1918) [d]

On the Jump (1918) [d,w]

The Prussian Cur (1918) [d,w]

The Woman and the Law (1918) [d,w]

Evangeline (1919) [d,w]

Should a Husband Forgive? (1919) [d,w]

From Now On (1920) [d,w]

The Deep Purple (1920) [d]

The Strongest (1920) [d,w]

Serenade (1921) [d]

The Oath (1921) [d]

Kindred of the Dust (1922) [d]

Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) [d]

Rosita (1923) [d]

The Thief of Bagdad (1924) [d]

East of Suez (1925) [d]

The Spaniard (1925) [d]

The Wanderer (1925) [d]

The Lady of the Harem (1926) [d]

The Lucky Lady (1926) [d]

What Price Glory (1926) [d]

The Loves of Carmen (1927) [d]

The Monkey Talks (1927) [d]

Me, Gangster (1928) [d,w]

Sadie Thompson (1928) [a,d,w]

The Red Dance (1928) [d]

Hot for Paris (1929) [d,w]

The Cock-Eyed World (1929) [d,w]

The Big Trail (1930) [d,w]

Die Große Fahrt (1931) [d]

La Gran jornada (1931) [d]

The Man Who Came Back (1931) [d]

The Yellow Ticket (1931) [d]

Women of All Nations (1931) [d]

Me and My Gal (1932) [d]

Wild Girl (1932) [d]

Going Hollywood (1933) [d]

Hello, Sister! (1933) [d]

Sailor's Luck (1933) [d]

The Bowery (1933) [d]

Baby Face Harrington (1935) [d]

Every Night at Eight (1935) [d]

Under Pressure (1935) [d]

Big Brown Eyes (1936) [d,w]

Klondike Annie (1936) [d]

Spendthrift (1936) [d,w]

Artists and Models (1937) [d]

Hitting a New High (1937) [d]

Jump for Glory (1937) [d]

O.H.M.S. (1937) [d]

College Swing (1938) [d]

St. Louis Blues (1939) [d]

The Roaring Twenties (1939) [d]

Dark Command (1940) [d]

They Drive by Night (1940) [d]

High Sierra (1941) [d]

Manpower (1941) [d]

The Strawberry Blonde (1941) [d]

They Died with Their Boots On (1941) [d]

Desperate Journey (1942) [d]

Gentleman Jim (1942) [d]

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) [d]

Background to Danger (1943) [d]

Northern Pursuit (1943) [d]

Uncertain Glory (1944) [d]

Objective, Burma! (1945) [d]

Salty O'Rourke (1945) [d]

San Antonio (1945) [d]

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) [d]

Cheyenne (1947) [d]

Pursued (1947) [d]

Stallion Road (1947) [d]

The Man I Love (1947) [d]

Fighter Squadron (1948) [d]

One Sunday Afternoon (1948) [d]

Silver River (1948) [d]

Colorado Territory (1949) [d]

White Heat (1949) [d]

Montana (1950) [d]

Along the Great Divide (1951) [d]

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) [d]

Distant Drums (1951) [d]

The Enforcer (1951) [d]

Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) [d]

Glory Alley (1952) [d]

The World in His Arms (1952) [d]

A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) [d]

Gun Fury (1953) [d]

Sea Devils (1953) [d]

The Lawless Breed (1953) [d]

Saskatchewan (1954) [d]

Battle Cry (1955) [d]

The Tall Men (1955) [d]

The King and Four Queens (1956) [d]

The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) [d]

Band of Angels (1957) [d]

The Naked and the Dead (1958) [d]

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) [d]

A Private's Affair (1959) [d]

Esther and the King (1960) [d,w]

Marines, Let's Go (1961) [d,w]

A Distant Trumpet (1964) [d]

The Delta Factor (1970) [w]

75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972) [a]

La Femme à abattre (1993) [w]



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