King Wallis Vidor (February 8th 1894 - November 1th 1982) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. His films from the 1920s and 1930s were amongst the most creative, both in content and theme, of those produced in Hollywood; they deal in relatively uncompromising terms with such themes as idealism and disillusionment in contemporary life.
Among his most admired works we can find The Big Parade (1925), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931), Stella Dallas (1937), The Citadel (1938) and The Fountainhead (1949).
King Vidor was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Director, and won eight international film awards during his career. In 1979 he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his “incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator”.