Motion Picture Director. He began his film directing career in 1915. Among his films are: "Tol'able David" (1921), "Stella Dallas" (1925), "State Fair" (1933), "Way Down East" (1935), "Ramona" (1936), "Lloyd's of London" (1936), "Seventh Heaven" (1937), "In Old Chicago" (1938), "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938), "Jesse James" (1939), "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939), "Little Old New York" (1940), "Maryland" (1940), "Chad Hanna" (1940), "A Yank in the RAF" (1941), "The Black Swan" (1942), "The Song of Bernadette" (1943), "Wilson" (1944), "A Bell for Adano (1945), "Margie" (1946), "Captain from Castile" (1947), "Deep Waters" (1948), "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949), "The Gunfighter" (1950), "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain" (1951), "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952), "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" (1952), "King of the Khyber Rifles" (1953), "Untamed" (1955), "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955), "Carousel" (1956), "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), "The Bravados" (1958), "Beloved Infidel" (1959), "This Earth Is Mine" (1959) and "Tender Is the Night" (1962). He is one of the 36 original founders of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the organization that hosts the Academy Awards & was a longtime director for the major movie studio, 20th Century-Fox. King has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures, located at 6327 Hollywood Blvd.
James Micheal Gaudin 
