William A. Wellman

Born: 1896-02-29 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Died: 1975-12-09

Known For: Directing

Biography

William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion. He also directed several well regarded satirical comedies. Wellman directed the 1927 film Wings, which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony.

Filmography

2018

A Star Is Born ... (Original Story)

2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self (archive footage)

2006

Filmmakers in Action as Self (archive footage)

1955

Blood Alley ... (Director)

1954

A Star Is Born ... (Story)
The High and the Mighty ... (Director)
Track of the Cat ... (Director)

1953

Island in the Sky as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1952

This Is Your Life as Self
My Man and I ... (Director)

1951

Westward the Women ... (Director)
Across the Wide Missouri ... (Director)
It's a Big Country ... (Director)

1950

The Next Voice You Hear... ... (Director)
The Happy Years ... (Director)

1949

Battleground ... (Director)

1948

Yellow Sky ... (Director)
The Iron Curtain ... (Director)

1947

Magic Town ... (Director)

1946

Gallant Journey ... (Director)

1945

Story of G.I. Joe ... (Director)
This Man's Navy ... (Director)

1944

Buffalo Bill ... (Director)

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident ... (Director)
Lady of Burlesque ... (Director)

1942

Roxie Hart ... (Director)
Thunder Birds ... (Director)

1941

The Great Man's Lady ... (Director)
Reaching for the Sun ... (Director)

1939

Beau Geste ... (Director)
The Light That Failed ... (Director)

1938

Men with Wings ... (Director)

1937

A Star Is Born ... (Director)
Nothing Sacred ... (Director)
The Last Gangster ... (Story)

1936

Tarzan Escapes ... (Co-Director)
Small Town Girl ... (Director)
Robin Hood of El Dorado ... (Director)

1935

Call of the Wild ... (Director)
China Seas ... (Second Unit Director)

1934

Stingaree ... (Director)
The President Vanishes ... (Director)
Looking for Trouble ... (Director)

1933

Midnight Mary ... (Director)
Frisco Jenny as Reporter (uncredited)
Central Airport ... (Director)
Wild Boys of the Road ... (Director)
Female ... (Assistant Director)
College Coach ... (Director)
Lilly Turner ... (Director)
Heroes for Sale ... (Director)

1932

So Big! ... (Director)
The Hatchet Man ... (Director)
The Purchase Price ... (Director)
The Conquerors ... (Director)
Love is a Racket ... (Director)

1931

The Public Enemy ... (Director)
Other Men's Women ... (Director)
Night Nurse ... (Director)
Safe in Hell ... (Director)
The Star Witness as Company Workman (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) as Self

1930

Dangerous Paradise ... (Director)
Maybe It's Love ... (Director)
Young Eagles ... (Director)

1929

Woman Trap ... (Director)
The Man I Love ... (Director)
Chinatown Nights ... (Director)

1928

Beggars of Life ... (Director)
Ladies of the Mob ... (Director)
The Legion of the Condemned ... (Director)

1927

Wings as Doughboy (uncredited)

1926

The Boob ... (Director)
You Never Know Women ... (Director)
The Cat's Pajamas ... (Director)

1925

1925 Studio Tour as Self
When Husbands Flirt ... (Director)

1924

The Vagabond Trail ... (Director)
Not a Drum Was Heard ... (Director)
The Circus Cowboy ... (Director)

1923

The Man Who Won ... (Director)
Big Dan ... (Director)
Cupid's Fireman ... (Director)
Second Hand Love ... (Director)

1920

Edgar and the Teacher's Pet ... (Assistant Director)
Edgar's Hamlet ... (Assistant Director)

1919

Evangeline as British lieutenant
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo as Henry

1918

The Unwritten Code ... (Assistant Director)