The Resume

(March 11, 1887-December 31, 1980)
Born in New York, New York
Birth name was Albert Edward Walsh
Appeared in 'The Birth of a Nation' (1915) and 'Sadie Thompson' (1928)
Directed 'Regeneration' (1915), 'The Thief of Baghdad' (1924), 'What Price Glory?' (1926), 'Sadie Thompson' (1928), 'The Big Trail' (1930), 'Klondike Annie' (1936), 'The Roaring Twenties' (1939), 'They Drive By Night' (1940), 'High Sierra' (1941), 'They Died With Their Boots On' (1941), 'Objective, Burma!' (1945), 'White Heat' (1949), 'Distant Drums' (1951), 'Battle Cry' (1955), 'The Naked and the Dead' (1958) and 'A Distant Trumpet' (1964)
Wrote the autobiography 'Each Man in His Time' (1974)

Why he might be annoying:

He refused to get a glass eye because 'Every time I'd get into a fight, I'd have to put it in my pocket.'
Jack Pickford commented, 'Your idea of light comedy is to burn down a whorehouse.'
He claimed he stole John Barrymore's body from the mortuary and propped it up in a chair at Errol Flynn's house as a practical joke.
Leonard Maltin described his autobiography as 'entertaining fiction with an occasional nod to the truth.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He lost his right eye when a jackrabbit jumped through the windshield of his jeep (1928).
He also lost the lead role in 'In Old Arizona' which would win an Academy Award for Warner Baxter.
He gave Marion Morrison his stage name, John Wayne.
His directing career lasted five decades.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Actors Turned Directors
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 14]
• D.W. Griffith Films
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• Footprints in Mann's Theater - Male
• Founding Members of the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Sciences
• I Adopted a Child
• I Attended the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Gone With the Wind’ [December 28, 1939]
• I Died Before the Ball Dropped [December 31st] (Ranked: 1980)
• I Died in 1980 (Ranked: 93)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[U-Z]
• I Portrayed Myself
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing an Eye Patch
• One-Eyed Jacks
• Profiles 23501-23750 (Ranked: 23717)
• Visually Impaired
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19801231)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 19 Votes: 21.05% Annoying