Charles Vidor

Charles Vidor

1900-07-26 Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary] 37 Credits

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...

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Song Without End

Song Without End

1960

Director

4.8
Directing

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

1957

Director

5.8
Directing

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

The Joker is Wild

1957

Director

8.0
Directing

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

The Swan

The Swan

1956

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Love Me or Leave Me

1955

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Rhapsody

1954

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Hans Christian Andersen

1952

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Thunder in the East

1952

Director

5.4
Directing

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

It's a Big Country

1951

Director

5.3
Directing

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

The Loves of Carmen

1948

Director, Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

Gilda

Gilda

1946

Director

7.5
Directing

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

Over 21

Over 21

1945

Director

5.2
Directing

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

A Song to Remember

1945

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Together Again

1944

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Cover Girl

1944

Director

6.4
Directing

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes

1943

Director

5.7
Directing

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

The Tuttles of Tahiti

1942

Director

5.5
Directing

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

New York Town

1941

Director

10.0
Directing

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

Ladies in Retirement

1941

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Lady in Question

1940

Director

6.6
Directing

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

My Son, My Son!

My Son, My Son!

1940

Director

4.8
Directing

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

Those High Grey Walls

1939

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Blind Alley

1939

Director

5.7
Directing

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Romance of the Redwoods

Romance of the Redwoods

1939

Director

6.0
Directing

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

She's No Lady

1937

Director

Directing

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

The Great Gambini

1937

Director

6.0
Directing

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

A Doctor's Diary

1937

Director

10.0
Directing

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

Muss 'em Up

1936

Director

5.5
Directing

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

His Family Tree

1935

Director

4.5
Directing

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

The Arizonian

The Arizonian

1935

Director

Directing

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

Strangers All

Strangers All

1935

Director

5.5
Directing

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Double Door

Double Door

1934

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Sensation Hunters

1933

Director

2.0
Directing

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

Me and My Gal

1932

Additional Writing

6.5

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Mask of Fu Manchu

1932

Producer

5.5
Producing

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

Good Sport

1931

Writer

4.5
Writing

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

The Bridge

1929

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

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.