Biography
Charles Vidor (July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a film director. Born Károly Vidor to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, he served in the Hungarian Army during World War I. He first came to prominence during the final years of the silent film era. Among his film successes are The Bridge (1929), Cover Girl (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Swan (1956), The Joker Is Wild (1957), and A Farewell to Arms (1957). He was mar...
Complete Filmography

Song Without End
1960
Director
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

A Farewell to Arms
1957
Director
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to ...

The Joker is Wild
1957
Director
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

The Swan
1956
Director
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant co...

Love Me or Leave Me
1955
Director
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stard...

Rhapsody
1954
Director
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano stude...

Hans Christian Andersen
1952
Director
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

Thunder in the East
1952
Director
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifi...

It's a Big Country
1951
Director
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best director...

The Loves of Carmen
1948
Director, Producer
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

Gilda
1946
Director
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Over 21
1945
Director
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

A Song to Remember
1945
Director
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, wher...

Together Again
1944
Director
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on an...

Cover Girl
1944
Director
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

The Desperadoes
1943
Director
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and wh...

The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
Director
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Un...

New York Town
1941
Director
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

Ladies in Retirement
1941
Director
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit ...

The Lady in Question
1940
Director
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

My Son, My Son!
1940
Director
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten...

Those High Grey Walls
1939
Director
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from...

Blind Alley
1939
Director
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Romance of the Redwoods
1939
Director
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on hi...

She's No Lady
1937
Director
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. A...

The Great Gambini
1937
Director
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a p...

A Doctor's Diary
1937
Director
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spina...

Muss 'em Up
1936
Director
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attrac...

His Family Tree
1935
Director
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

The Arizonian
1935
Director
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore ...

Strangers All
1935
Director
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Double Door
1934
Director
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Ave...

Sensation Hunters
1933
Director
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of ...

Me and My Gal
1932
Additional Writing
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
Producer
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an upris...

Good Sport
1931
Writer
Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.

The Bridge
1929
Director, Screenplay
A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks. He falls into the water and his escape attempt ensues.