Raoul A. Walsh


 Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980)

Walsh was a film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic The Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as The Big Trail (1930), starring John Wayne, and High Sierra (1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. His directed his last film in 1964. HIs other films include The Roaring Twenties (1939), featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Dark Command (1940), with John Wayne and Roy Rogers (at Republic Pictures); They Drive By Night (1940), with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and Bogart; They Died with Their Boots On (1941), with Errol Flynn as Custer; The Strawberry Blonde (1941), with Cagney and Olivia de Havilland; Manpower (1941), with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich and George Raft; and White Heat (1949), with Cagney. Some of Walsh's film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Walsh died at age of 93 on New Year's Eve in 1980, and is buried at Assumption Catholic Cemetery in Simi Valley, CA. 

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