Biography
Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and directed the widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne in his first leading role, The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney, Gladys George, Priscilla Lane and Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo and Margaret Wycherly. He directed his last film in 1964. His work has been noted as influences on directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
White Heat
The Roaring Twenties
Along the Great Divide
The Thief of Bagdad
Gentleman Jim
The Enforcer
High Sierra
Marines, Let's Go
Captain Horatio Hornblower
One Sunday Afternoon
Cheyenne
The Strawberry Blonde
In This Our Life
They Drive by Night
Come September
The Lawless Breed
Objective, Burma!
Manpower
The Regeneration
Background to Danger
They Died with Their Boots On
The Big Trail
Pursued
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
The Tall Men
Dark Command
Me and My Gal
The Red Dance
What Price Glory
Band of Angels
Klondike Annie
Northern Pursuit
Wild Girl
Gun Fury
Silver River
The Man I Love
Desperate Journey
Hello, Sister!
Sailor's Luck
Sea Devils
Blackbeard, the Pirate
The Birth of a Nation
The King and Four Queens
Battle Cry
A Distant Trumpet
Hitting a New High
A Lion Is in the Streets
The Bowery
In Old Arizona