Line #1 Creator/RaoulWalsh


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Walsh with his [[EyepatchOfPower one good eye]].]]
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4	-> ''"To Raoul Walsh, a tender love scene is burning down a whorehouse."''
5	-->-- '''Jack Warner'''
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7	Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, one of [[ThePioneer the pioneers]] of Hollywood, a man who had a storied career and colorful personality with which he infused into his movies. His movies are noted for being highly rambunctious, filled with [[RatedMForManly men being men]], tough women, and a great sense of adventure, especially when the going was tough.
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9	Walsh was the son of Irish Catholic immigrants and from an early age was drawn into the performance arts, working on stage in New York City. He eventually came into contact with Creator/DWGriffith and appeared in many films, most notably when he played John Wilkes Booth in ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation\|1915}}''. Walsh also worked as Griffith's assistant director and eventually went into films. Famously, he made a film in Mexico about Pancho Villa, ''starring Pancho Villa'' in 1914. (Sadly, the Villa film is now lost.) Historians feel that his BreakthroughHit was ''Regeneration'' (1915), a proto-gangster film shot on location in New York's fading Five Points district.
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11	Walsh continued directing and acting intermittently in the tens and twenties. but he became a full-time director as a result of a 1928 freak accident. Walsh was directing and starring in a film called ''In Old Arizona''. While driving his car down a highway, a jackrabbit in the path of the car jumped on top and burst through the windshield. Walsh lost an eye as a result of this accident and gave up acting for good, famously [[EyepatchOfPower wearing a distinctive eyepatch]] for the rest of his life. This accident was partly recreated in ''Film/HighSierra'' with far less drastic results.
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13	As a director, Walsh directed the likes of Creator/DouglasFairbanks, Creator/JamesCagney, Creator/ErrolFlynn, Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnWayne, Creator/RobertMitchum, Creator/SpencerTracy, Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/GregoryPeck. He's most associated with Cagney having made four films with the actor, including ''Film/WhiteHeat'', arguably Walsh's most widely known film. He's mostly associated with FilmNoir, war films, and westerns but admirers note that he made several different kinds of films. The likes of Creator/MartinScorsese admire his films set in TheGayNineties (''The Bowery'' which inspired ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' as well as ''The Strawberry Blonde'' and ''Gentleman Jim'', which was based on his childhood). Walsh was a larger-than-life personality and a renowned practical joker; according to legend, after Creator/JohnBarrymore died, he hijacked the corpse and stashed it in Errol Flynn's room and was thrilled at his shock of horror. The page quote by Jack Warner is regarded by many as a good description of his BoisterousBruiser personality.
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15	Historians often believe that Walsh was OvershadowedByAwesome; as great as he was, his contemporaries were Creator/DWGriffith, Creator/JohnFord, Creator/HowardHawks, Creator/OrsonWelles, and Creator/KingVidor. Despite this, he is considered a great filmmaker and an influence on several filmmakers and artists around the world, from Creator/MartinScorsese to Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder, as well as composer Music/StephenSondheim.
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18	!! Films directed by Raoul Walsh with pages on TV Tropes
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20	[[index]]
21	* ''Film/{{Regeneration}}'' (1915)
22	* ''Film/{{The Thief of Bagdad\|1924}}'' (1924)
23	* ''Film/WhatPriceGlory'' (1926)
24	* ''Film/InOldArizona'' (1928) (uncredited; replaced by Irvin Cummings after injury)
25	* ''Film/SadieThompson'' (also starred) (1928)
26	* ''Film/TheBigTrail'' (1930)
27	* ''Film/MeAndMyGal'' (1932)
28	* ''Film/{{The Roaring Twenties\|1939}}'' (1939)
29	* ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' (1940)
30	* ''Film/HighSierra'' (1941)
31	* ''Film/TheStrawberryBlonde'' (1941)
32	* ''Film/TheyDiedWithTheirBootsOn'' (1941)
33	* ''Film/DesperateJourney'' (1942)
34	* ''Film/NorthernPursuit'' (1943)
35	* ''Film/UncertainGlory'' (1944)
36	* ''Film/ObjectiveBurma'' (1945)
37	* ''Film/SilverRiver'' (1948)
38	* ''Film/WhiteHeat'' (1949)
39	* ''Film/{{The Enforcer\|1951}}'' (1951) (uncredited; completed the film after Bretaigne Windust fell ill)
40	* ''[[Film/HoratioHornblower Captain Horatio Hornblower]]'' (1951)
41	* ''Film/GunFury'' (1953)
42	* ''Film/{{Battle Cry\|1955}}'' (1955)
43	* ''Film/TheRevoltOfMamieStover'' (1956)
44	* ''Film/TheSheriffOfFracturedJaw'' (1958)
45	[[/index]]
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48	!!Raoul Walsh in fiction:
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50	* Creator/KyleChandler plays Walsh in ''Film/AndStarringPanchoVillaAsHimself'', a 2003 TV movie about Walsh's Pancho Villa film that starred Creator/AntonioBanderas as Pancho Villa.

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