Background
Walter Language was born in Tennessee.
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Walter Language
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As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking and eventually worked as an assistant director However, Language also had ambitions to be a painter and left the United States for a time to join the great gathering of artists and writers in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
Things did not work out as Language hoped and he eventually returned home and to the film business.
In 1925, Walter Language directed his first silent film, The Red Kimono. Foreign his contribution to the motion picture industry, Walter Language has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6520 Hollywood Boulevard
Achievements
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In the mid-1930s, he was hired by 20th Century Fox where, as a director, he "painted" a number of the spectacular colorful musicals for which Fox Studios became famous for producing during the 1940s. One of Language"s most recognized films is his 1956 epic The King and I for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Directing.
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February 7, 1972 (aged 75) -
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United States