Henry King

Henry King

1886-01-24 Christiansburg, Virginia, United States 106 Credits

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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Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

1962

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Beloved Infidel

1959

Director

6.0
Directing

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

This Earth Is Mine

1959

Director

6.1
Directing

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

The Bravados

1958

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Sun Also Rises

1957

Director

5.9
Directing

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

Carousel

Carousel

1956

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Untamed

1955

Director

5.6
Directing

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

King of the Khyber Rifles

1953

Director

5.7
Directing

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

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952

Director

5.9
Directing

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

O. Henry's Full House

1952

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

1952

Director

5.6
Directing

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

David and Bathsheba

1951

Director

5.7
Directing

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

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

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

The Gunfighter

1950

Director

7.3
Directing

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

Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High

1949

Director

7.1
Directing

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

Prince of Foxes

1949

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Deep Waters

1948

Director

6.0
Directing

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Captain from Castile

Captain from Castile

1947

Director

7.1
Directing

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

Margie

1946

Director

6.9
Directing

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

A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano

1945

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Wilson

1944

Director

5.5
Directing

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

The Song of Bernadette

1943

Director

7.0
Directing

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

The Black Swan

1942

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Remember the Day

1941

Director

6.6
Directing

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.

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941

Director

5.6
Directing

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Chad Hanna

Chad Hanna

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Maryland

1940

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Little Old New York

1940

Director

4.0
Directing

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

Stanley and Livingstone

1939

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Jesse James

1939

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938

Director

6.7
Directing

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

In Old Chicago

1938

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Seventh Heaven

1937

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Lloyd's of London

1936

Director

7.1
Directing

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

Ramona

1936

Director

5.1
Directing

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

The Country Doctor

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Way Down East

Way Down East

1935

Director

3.0
Directing

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

One More Spring

1935

Director

5.8
Directing

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Marie Galante

Marie Galante

1934

Director

4.5
Directing

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

Carolina

1934

Director

6.0
Directing

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

I Loved You Wednesday

1933

Director

2.5
Directing

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

State Fair

1933

Director

6.2
Directing

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

The Woman in Room 13

The Woman in Room 13

1932

Director

Directing

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

Over the Hill

1931

Director

8.2
Directing

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'

Lightnin'

1930

Director, Producer

3.7
Directing Producing

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

The Eyes of the World

1930

Director

Directing

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

Hell Harbor

1930

Director

6.0
Directing

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

She Goes to War

1929

Director, Executive Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

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

The Woman Disputed

1928

Director

6.2
Directing

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

The Magic Flame

1927

Director

4.3
Directing

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

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Partners Again

1926

Director

Directing

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

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

7.3
Acting

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

Stella Dallas

1925

Director

7.1
Directing

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

Any Woman

1925

Director

Directing

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

Sackcloth and Scarlet

1925

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Silent Drama

Romola

Romola

1924

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The White Sister

1923

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

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

The Bond Boy

1923

Director

Directing

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

Fury

1923

Director

9.0
Directing

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

Sonny

1922

Director, Adaptation, Producer

Directing Producing Writing

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

The Seventh Day

1922

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

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

Tol'able David

1921

Director, Writer, Producer

6.9
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Mistress of Shenstone

1921

Director

Directing

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

When We Were Twenty-One

1921

Director

Directing

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

One Hour Before Dawn

1920

Director

Directing

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

23 1/2 Hours' Leave

1919

Director

Directing

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

Six Feet Four

1919

Director

5.5
Directing

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

This Hero Stuff

1919

Director

Directing

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

A Sporting Chance

1919

Director

4.7
Directing

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

Brass Buttons

1919

Director

Directing

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

Where the West Begins

1919

Director

Directing

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

All the World to Nothing

1918

Director

Directing

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

Hobbs in a Hurry

1918

Director

Directing
The Locked Heart

The Locked Heart

1918

as Harry Mason

Acting
The Locked Heart

The Locked Heart

1918

Director

Directing
The Ghost of Rosy Taylor

The Ghost of Rosy Taylor

1918

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Up Romance Road

1918

Director

Directing

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

Social Briars

1918

Director

Directing

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?

Hearts or Diamonds?

1918

Acting

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?

Hearts or Diamonds?

1918

Director

Directing

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

Powers That Prey

1918

Director

Directing

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

Beauty and the Rogue

1918

Director

Directing

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

The Mate of the Sally Ann

1917

Director

Directing

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

Directing

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

Directing

Clutching a dagger, a woman enters a room through velvet portiers and murders Nathan, scion of a distinguished family.

Souls in Pawn

Souls in Pawn

1917

Director

Directing

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

Twin Kiddies

1916

as Jasper Hunt

Acting

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

Twin Kiddies

1916

Director

Directing

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

Little Mary Sunshine

1916

as Bob Daley

5.9
Acting

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

Little Mary Sunshine

1916

Director

5.9
Directing

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?

Should a Wife Forgive?

1915

Acting

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?

Should a Wife Forgive?

1915

Director

Directing

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

The Maid of the Wild

1915

as David Graham

Acting

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

In Humble Guise

1915

as Ned

Acting

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

The Nemesis

1915

Acting

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

The Nemesis

1915

Director

Directing

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?

Who Pays?

1915

as Karl Hurd

Acting

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?

Who Pays?

1915

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

Acting

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

The Test of Manhood

1914

as Harry Wentworth - John's Son

Acting

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

Acting

The Unexpected

1914

as Dave Parks

Acting

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

The Tenderfoot Hero

1913

as Tom Milford

Acting

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

Acting