2007 San Sebastian Film Festival to honor Hollywood filmmaker Henry King with extensive retrospective
Henry King is best remembered for the movies he directed at Fox, later 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. During that time, King collaborated quite frequently with Tyrone Power and Gregory Peck. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director: The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Wilson (1944).
Henry King died at age 96 on June 29, 1982, in the Los Angeles suburb of Toluca Lake.
San Sebastian Film Festival’s Henry King movie roster
Little Mary Sunshine (1916)
Cast: Baby Marie (Osborne), Henry King.Twin Kiddies (1917)
Cast: Baby Marie (Osborne), Henry King.A Sporting Chance (1919)
Cast: William Russell, Fritzi Brunette.Tol’able David (1921)
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Ernest Torrence.The Seventh Day (1921)
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Louise Huff.Romola (1924)
Cast: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Ronald Colman, William Powell.Stella Dallas (1925)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Jean Hersholt, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce.The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
Cast: Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, Gary Cooper.The Woman Disputed (1928, with Sam Taylor)
Cast: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland.Over the Hill (1931)
Cast: Mae Marsh, James Dunn, Sally Eilers.State Fair (1933)
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Lew Ayres, Norman Foster, Sally Eilers.
Best Picture Oscar nominee; Henry King bypassed for Best Director.Way Down East (1935)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Rochelle Hudson.Ramona (1936)
Cast: Loretta Young, Don Ameche.Lloyd’s of London (1936)
Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power, Freddie Bartholomew.In Old Chicago (1937)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady.
Best Picture Oscar nominee; Henry King bypassed for Best Director.Seventh Heaven (1937)
Cast: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Gale Sondergaard.Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman.
Best Picture Oscar nominee; Henry King bypassed for Best Director.Jesse James (1939)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly.Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke.Little Old New York (1940)
Cast: Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce.Maryland (1940)
Cast: Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, John Payne, Brenda Joyce.Chad Hanna (1940)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell.A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable.Remember the Day (1941)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, John Payne.The Black Swan (1942)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders.The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Cast: Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere.
Best Picture & Best Director Oscar nomination.Wilson (1944)
Cast: Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Best Picture & Best Director Oscar nomination.A Bell for Adano (1945)
Cast: Gene Tierney, John Hodiak.Captain from Castile (1947)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero.Deep Waters 1948)
Cast: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell.Prince of Foxes 1949)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Wanda Hendrix, Orson Welles.Twelve O’Clock High 1949)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Dean Jagger.
Best Picture Oscar nominee; Henry King bypassed for Best Director.The Gunfighter (1950)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Parker.I’d Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
Cast: Susan Hayward, William Lundigan.David and Bathsheba (1951)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward.Wait ’till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
Cast: Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe.The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner.O. Henry’s Full House (Segment: “The Gift of the Magi”) (1952)
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger.King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin.Untamed (1955)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, Agnes Moorehead.Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones.
Best Picture Oscar nominee; Henry King bypassed for Best Director.Carousel (1956)
Cast: Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Cameron Mitchell.The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert.The Bravados (1958)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd.This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire.Beloved Infidel (1959)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr.Tender Is the Night (1961)
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine.
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Henry King and other images: San Sebastian Film Festival.