Lee De Forest
Born: 1873-08-26 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Died: 1961-06-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Filmography
1991
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio as Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
1927
- The Lard Song ... (Producer)
1926
- Sweet Adeline ... (Producer)
- My Old Kentucky Home ... (Producer)
- Dick Henderson ... (Director)
- Billy Merson Singing 'Desdemonia' ... (Producer)
1924
- President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds ... (Director)
1923
- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs ... (Director)
- A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor ... (Director)
- Stringed Harmony ... (Director)
- Harlequin Serenade ... (Director)
- Ben Bernie and All the Lads ... (Director)
- Weber and Fields Pool Hall ... (Director)
- A Study in Contrasts ... (Director)
- What the Phonofilm Means ... (Director)
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers from Chauve Souris ... (Director)
- Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River ... (Director)
- From Far Seville ... (Director)
1922
- Casey at the Bat ... (Director)