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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)
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
2000
Director
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
1999
as Self (archive footage)
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
1990
as Self (archive footage)
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
1961
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
1948
Director
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
1945
Director
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

A Guy Named Joe
1943
Director
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
1942
Director
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
1941
Director
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
1940
as Self
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Gone with the Wind
1939
Director
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
1939
Director, Producer
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
1938
Co-Director
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Test Pilot
1938
Director
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
1937
Director
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
1935
Director
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Reckless
1935
Director
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Treasure Island
1934
Director
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
1933
Director
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

The White Sister
1933
Director
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Red Dust
1932
Director, Producer
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
1932
Director
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
1931
as Self
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
1931
Director, Director of Photography
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
1930
Director, Producer
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
1930
Director
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
1929
Director
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
1929
Director
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
1928
Director
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
1928
Director
When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.

The Way of All Flesh
1927
Director
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
1927
Director
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
1927
Director
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Mantrap
1926
Director
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
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
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
1925
Director
'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
1925
Producer, Director
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
1925
Director
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
1924
Director
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
1924
Director
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
1923
Director
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
1923
Director
Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

Law of the Lawless
1923
Director
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
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
1922
Director
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
1922
Director
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
1922
Director
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
1921
Director
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
1921
Director
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
1920
Director
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
1919
as Himself
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
1919
Director, Writer
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
1917
Cinematography
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
1917
Director of Photography
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
1917
Director of Photography
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
1916
Director of Photography
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
1916
Director of Photography
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
1916
Cinematography
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
1916
Second Assistant Director
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
1916
Cinematography
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
1916
Director of Photography
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
1916
Director of Photography
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

The Habit of Happiness
1916
Director of Photography
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
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...