Victor Fleming

Died in 1949

Victor Fleming was born in 1889 in California, near Pasadena, and lost his father at the age of four. A car mechanic, taxi driver and racing driver, he became a cameraman, and during the peace conference of 1919 he was President Wilson's official photographer. He directed some forty films and in 1940 received the Academy Award for Best Director for the other great film he made in 1939. He died in 1949 near Cottonwood, Arizona.

In the catalogue 1

CinemaThe Wizard of OzVictor Fleming · 1939Cinema