Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American film director. Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice unsuccessfully nominated for the Best Director Oscar. In 1944, he was awarded the first Golden ...
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Complete Filmography

Tender Is the Night
1962
Director
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroug...

Beloved Infidel
1959
Director
In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott Fitzgerald, an...

This Earth Is Mine
1959
Director
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...

The Bravados
1958
Director
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts ...

The Sun Also Rises
1957
Director
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

Carousel
1956
Director
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that ...

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955
Director
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolu...

Untamed
1955
Director
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her hu...

King of the Khyber Rifles
1953
Director
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an atta...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Director
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

O. Henry's Full House
1952
Director
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is...

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952
Director
At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character th...

David and Bathsheba
1951
Director
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951
Director, Screenplay
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spi...

The Gunfighter
1950
Director
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Twelve O'Clock High
1949
Director
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deal...

Prince of Foxes
1949
Director
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate m...

Deep Waters
1948
Director
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Captain from Castile
1947
Director
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...

Margie
1946
Director
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

A Bell for Adano
1945
Director
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without int...

Wilson
1944
Director
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...

The Song of Bernadette
1943
Director
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...

The Black Swan
1942
Director
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane...

Remember the Day
1941
Director
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da...

A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
Director
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Chad Hanna
1940
Director
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

Maryland
1940
Director
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa...

Little Old New York
1940
Director
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Stanley and Livingstone
1939
Director
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...

Jesse James
1939
Director
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938
Director
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls i...

In Old Chicago
1938
Director
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Seventh Heaven
1937
Director
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the sev...

Lloyd's of London
1936
Director
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, t...

Ramona
1936
Director
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by t...

The Country Doctor
1936
Director
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Way Down East
1935
Director
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret i...

One More Spring
1935
Director
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Marie Galante
1934
Director
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt l...

Carolina
1934
Director
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joa...

I Loved You Wednesday
1933
Director
Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they se...

State Fair
1933
Director
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

The Woman in Room 13
1932
Director
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he i...

Over the Hill
1931
Director
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. ...

Lightnin'
1930
Director, Producer
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while...

The Eyes of the World
1930
Director
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film star...

Hell Harbor
1930
Director
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy...

She Goes to War
1929
Director, Executive Producer
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

The Woman Disputed
1928
Director
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.

The Magic Flame
1927
Director
The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar. G...

The Winning of Barbara Worth
1926
Director
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daught...

Partners Again
1926
Director
Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again ...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...

Stella Dallas
1925
Director
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter ...

Any Woman
1925
Director
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help supp...

Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925
Director, Producer
Silent Drama

Romola
1924
Director
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Ti...

The White Sister
1923
Director, Producer
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large...

The Bond Boy
1923
Director
For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced...

Fury
1923
Director
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his effeminac...

Sonny
1922
Director, Adaptation, Producer
Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during WWI. One is fatally fatally wounded and requests ...

The Seventh Day
1922
Director, Producer
A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie a...

Tol'able David
1921
Director, Writer, Producer
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for t...

The Mistress of Shenstone
1921
Director
The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed....

When We Were Twenty-One
1921
Director
Dick Audaine, known affectionately as the "Imp," is engaged to Phyllis Ericson, even though she is in love with his guardian, Richard Carewe. Meanwhil...

One Hour Before Dawn
1920
Director
When a hypnotist named Norman Osgood mesmerizes a man named Harrison Kirke without his consent, Kirke threatens to kill him. Afraid for his life, Osgo...

23 1/2 Hours' Leave
1919
Director
Brash young Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can have breakfast with his commanding general. But a couple of enemy spies, intent on infiltrating the trai...

Six Feet Four
1919
Director
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy aga...

This Hero Stuff
1919
Director
War hero Captain November Jones tries to sneak into his hometown of Gold City, Nevada undetected but when he rescues a child from being run over by a ...

A Sporting Chance
1919
Director
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi B...

Brass Buttons
1919
Director
Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is ...

Where the West Begins
1919
Director
William Russell plays Cliff Redfern, a hard-ridin' Westerner who takes a liking to Easterner Ned Caldwell (Cullen Landis), the dissolute son of a weal...

All the World to Nothing
1918
Director
Richard Chester, a bachelor who has lost everything in a poker game, blunders into the apartment of Nora Ellis, who has just inherited a fortune under...

Hobbs in a Hurry
1918
Director

The Locked Heart
1918
as Harry Mason

The Locked Heart
1918
Director

The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
1918
Director
George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Mi...

Up Romance Road
1918
Director
An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening lett...

Social Briars
1918
Director
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in...

Hearts or Diamonds?
1918
Wealthy diamond collector Larry Hanrahan is given the opportunity to assist the beautiful, jewel-bedecked woman he admires in a Broadway café when she...

Hearts or Diamonds?
1918
Director
Wealthy diamond collector Larry Hanrahan is given the opportunity to assist the beautiful, jewel-bedecked woman he admires in a Broadway café when she...

Powers That Prey
1918
Director
Publisher Burton exposes politician Jarvis as a crook and is run out of town. He asks his daughter Sylvia to turn the newspaper over to his editor Fra...

Beauty and the Rogue
1918
Director
Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and event...

The Mate of the Sally Ann
1917
Director
A crusty old sea captain, who hates society, lives in the hulk of his ship with his granddaughter whom he prevents from meeting people.
A Game of Wits
1917
Director
Jeanette overhears Silas, an aging Wall Street wolf, demanding her as his wife in payment for saving her father from financial ruin.
The Bride's Silence
1917
Director
Clutching a dagger, a woman enters a room through velvet portiers and murders Nathan, scion of a distinguished family.

Souls in Pawn
1917
Director
Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainabl...

Twin Kiddies
1916
as Jasper Hunt
In March 1916, Pathé released a short feature entitled Little Mary Sunshine, starring a four-year-old Marie Osborne. This was one of the first feature...

Twin Kiddies
1916
Director
In March 1916, Pathé released a short feature entitled Little Mary Sunshine, starring a four-year-old Marie Osborne. This was one of the first feature...

Little Mary Sunshine
1916
as Bob Daley
Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.

Little Mary Sunshine
1916
Director
Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.

Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status reaches ...

Should a Wife Forgive?
1915
Director
A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status reaches ...

The Maid of the Wild
1915
as David Graham
James Sterling, wealthy bachelor, is told by his doctor that he must go up into the mountains if he would recover the health lost in his midnight part...

In Humble Guise
1915
as Ned
After a lover's quarrel, writer Grace Hunt goes vacationing to a seaside resort where she decides to swap identities with a student.

The Nemesis
1915
Having served ten years at hard labor, Robert Richards, Convict No. 832, regains his freedom from prison. Resolved to start life anew, he seeks employ...

The Nemesis
1915
Director
Having served ten years at hard labor, Robert Richards, Convict No. 832, regains his freedom from prison. Resolved to start life anew, he seeks employ...

Who Pays?
1915
as Karl Hurd
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing ...

Who Pays?
1915
Director, Writer
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing ...
The Coveted Heritage
1914
as The Priest
Arnold Truesdell, a rich invalid, requests his secretary, Robert Sheridan, to summon his lawyer. Truesdell is the foster father of Marion Robertson, t...

The Test of Manhood
1914
as Harry Wentworth - John's Son
Harry Wentworth is the profligate son of a ranch owner. His father is tired of Harry's irresponsible drinking and gambling and banishes him from home....
Nerve
1914
as Julius Booth
The Unexpected
1914
as Dave Parks
Dorothy Madison, a secret service operative, is sent into the West Virginia mountains to locate a still, after male operatives failed. She carries a s...

The Tenderfoot Hero
1913
as Tom Milford
Tom Milford, foreman of the Hayden ranch, and Sylvia Hayden, daughter of the ranch owner, are in love. Hayden has been notified that Archie Hollister,...
The Burden Bearer
1913
as Bob