Victor Fleming

Victor Fleming

1889-02-23 La Cañada, California, USA 66 Credits

Biography

Victor Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

2015

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

2000

Director

8.7
Directing

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of sync...

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

1999

as Self (archive footage)

7.7
Acting

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

1990

as Self (archive footage)

8.3
Acting

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of t...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

3.3
Acting

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

1948

Director

6.1
Directing

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...

Adventure

Adventure

1945

Director

6.2
Directing

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

A Guy Named Joe

A Guy Named Joe

1943

Director

6.6
Directing

A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to ...

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat

1942

Director

5.4
Directing

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friend...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941

Director

6.4
Directing

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self

6.5
Acting

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

1939

Director

7.9
Directing

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Director, Producer

7.6
Directing Producing

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

1938

Co-Director

5.7
Directing

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Test Pilot

Test Pilot

1938

Director

6.5
Directing

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

1937

Director

7.4
Directing

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935

Director

6.1
Directing

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Reckless

Reckless

1935

Director

5.3
Directing

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island

1934

Director

6.5
Directing

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in searc...

Bombshell

Bombshell

1933

Director

6.5
Directing

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

The White Sister

The White Sister

1933

Director

5.4
Directing

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Red Dust

Red Dust

1932

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives alon...

The Wet Parade

The Wet Parade

1932

Director

5.8
Directing

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...

Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

1931

as Self

Acting

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not su...

Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

1931

Director, Director of Photography

Directing

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not su...

Renegades

Renegades

1930

Director, Producer

4.5
Directing Producing

Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their reg...

Common Clay

Common Clay

1930

Director

Directing

Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves he...

The Virginian

The Virginian

1929

Director

5.8
Directing

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Wolf Song

Wolf Song

1929

Director

4.8
Directing

In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he mee...

The Awakening

The Awakening

1928

Director

5.0
Directing

A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sister...

Abie's Irish Rose

Abie's Irish Rose

1928

Director

Directing

When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1927

Director

6.9
Directing

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is...

The Rough Riders

The Rough Riders

1927

Director

4.0
Directing

The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. ...

Hula

Hula

1927

Director

5.7
Directing

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Mantrap

Mantrap

1926

Director

5.9
Directing

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorc...

The Blind Goddess

1926

Director

Directing

Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his d...

Lord Jim

1925

Director

Directing

Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a j...

A Son of His Father

A Son of His Father

1925

Director

Directing

'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous Holdbrook to foreclose on the Los Rosas ranch and m...

Adventure

Adventure

1925

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackla...

The Devil's Cargo

The Devil's Cargo

1925

Director

Directing

John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the low-...

Empty Hands

Empty Hands

1924

Director

Directing

Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her ou...

Code of the Sea

Code of the Sea

1924

Director

6.0
Directing

Young Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a Sailor. That led to the loss of a ship and its crew many ye...

The Call of the Canyon

The Call of the Canyon

1923

Director

Directing

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fia...

To the Last Man

To the Last Man

1923

Director

Directing

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless

1923

Director

Directing

Sahande, a Tartar girl placed on the block to be sold, is bought by Costa, a Gypsy chief who outbids Sahande's fiancé, Sender. Costa marries the infur...

Dark Secrets

1923

Director

Directing

Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in ...

Anna Ascends

Anna Ascends

1922

Director

Directing

While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigrant Anna Ayyob falls in love with reporter, Howard F...

Red Hot Romance

Red Hot Romance

1922

Director

Directing

After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insuran...

The Lane That Had No Turning

The Lane That Had No Turning

1922

Director

Directing

Louis Racine has inherited great wealth and married famed singer Madelinette, whom he passionately loves. But Louis carries a pair of secrets. Terri...

Woman's Place

Woman's Place

1921

Director

Directing

The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men...

Mama's Affair

Mama's Affair

1921

Director

Directing

Eve Orrin is at the mercy of her possessive mother, who has a case of "nerves" every time her daughter tries to show a mind of her own. Mrs. Orrin and...

The Mollycoddle

The Mollycoddle

1920

Director

5.6
Directing

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.

When the Clouds Roll By

When the Clouds Roll By

1919

as Himself

6.8
Acting

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting...

When the Clouds Roll By

When the Clouds Roll By

1919

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting...

Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

1917

Cinematography

5.8

A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discov...

The Man from Painted Post

The Man from Painted Post

1917

Director of Photography

4.8
Directing

In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association pretends...

Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly

1917

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gon...

The Americano

The Americano

1916

Director of Photography

5.8
Directing

Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the P...

The Matrimaniac

The Matrimaniac

1916

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a ministe...

American Aristocracy

American Aristocracy

1916

Cinematography

4.3

A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

Second Assistant Director

7.1
Directing

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed

1916

Cinematography

6.1

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama wr...

An Innocent Magdalene

An Innocent Magdalene

1916

Director of Photography

Directing

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Doro...

The Good Bad-Man

The Good Bad-Man

1916

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

The Habit of Happiness

The Habit of Happiness

1916

Director of Photography

5.4
Directing

Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy fam...

Betty of Greystone

Betty of Greystone

1916

Cinematography

After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. Sh...