Victor Fleming
Gender: Male
Born: 23rd February 1889
Died: 6th January 1949
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Guy Named Joe, A Son of His Father, Abie's Irish Rose, Adventure, Adventure, Anna Ascends, Bombshell, Captains Courageous, Code of the Sea, Common Clay, Dark Secrets, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Empty Hands, Gone with the Wind, Hula, Joan of Arc, Law of the Lawless, Lord Jim, Mama's Affair, Mantrap, Reckless, Red Dust, Red Hot Romance, Renegades, Test Pilot, The Awakening, The Blind Goddess, The Call of the Canyon, The Devil's Cargo, The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Good Earth, The Great Waltz, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Mollycoddle, The Rough Riders, The Spider Woman, The Virginian, The Way of All Flesh, The Wet Parade, The White Sister, The Wizard of Oz, The Wolf Song, To the Last Man, Tortilla Flat, Treasure Island, When the Clouds Roll by, Woman's Place
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
Fleming was born in La Canada, California, the son of Elizabeth Evaleen (née Hartman) and William Alonzo "Lon" Fleming, who worked in the water industry in Pasadena. His mother was of part German descent. Fleming served in the photographic section during World War I, and acted as chief photographer for President Woodrow Wilson in Versailles, France. He showed a mechanical aptitude early in life; while working as a car mechanic he met the director Allan Dwan, who took him on as a camera assistant. Fleming soon rose to the rank of cinematographer, working with both Dwan and D. W. Griffith, and directed his first film in 1919.
Many of Fleming's silent films were action movies, often starring Douglas Fairbanks, or Westerns, and with his robust attitude and love of outdoor sports he became known as a "man's director". But he also proved an effective director of women. Under his direction, Vivien Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar,
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