Mini-Biography:
William A. Wellman was born under the given name William Augustus Wellman on Februar 29, 1896 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American Director, Autor, Productor, known for Mas alla del Missouri (1951), Buffalo Bill (1943), Caravana de mujeres (1951), William A. Wellman's first movie on record is from 1919. He was married to Helene Chadwick (1918-1923), Margery Chapin (1925-1926), Marjorie Crawford (1931-1933), Dorothy Coonan (1934-1975). William A. Wellman died on Dezember 9, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 1976.

Biografia
Studium an der Newton High School 1908-1915, 1915 als Freiwilliger zur Französischen Armee, damm im Dezember 1916 zur Fremdenlegion. Als im Juni 1917 die USA in den Krieg eintreten, kommt Wellman zur Fliegertruppe und zur "Escadrille Lafayette". 1918 wird er abgeschossen und schliesslich mit Auszeichnungen entlassen.
Zurück in den USA trifft er auf Douglas Fairbanks und wird zuerst Schauspieler, bis er sich entscheidet, Regisseur zu werden. Nachdem er bei Goldwyn in verschiedenen Funktionen arbeitete, dreht Wellman schliesslich seine ersten Filme bei Fox.
Zu den exemplarischen Filmen von Wellman zählen der frühe Fliegerfilm "Wings", die Western "Across the wide Missouri", "The Ox-Bow Incident" und "Yellow Sky" sowie der Kriegfilm "The Story of G.I.Joe".

FilmografiaFilmografia [Auszug]
1976: A Star Is Born (Story ), Dirección Frank Pierson, con , Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey,
1958: Darby's Rangers (Director), con Corey Allen, Edward Ashley, Raymond Bailey,
1958: Lafayette Escadrille (Director), con Raymond Bailey, Etchika Choureau, Marcel Dalio,
1956: Goodbye my Lady (Director), con Louise Beavers, Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde,
1955: Blood alley (Director), con John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix,
1954: Track of the Cat (Director), con Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn,
1954: A star is born (Nach einer Vorlage von), Dirección George Cukor, con Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson,
1954: The High and the Mighty (Director), con Doe Avedon, Julie Bishop, Sidney Blackmer,
1954: Track of a Cat (Director),
1953: Island in the Sky (Director), con Guy Anderson, James Arness, Hal Baylor,
1952: It's a big country (Director), Dirección Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, con Leon Ames, Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle,
1952: My man and I (Director), con Robert Burton, George Chandler, Carlos Conde,
1951: Caravana de mujeres (Westward the Women) (Director), con Julie Bishop, Denise Darcel, Beverly Dennis,
1951: Mas alla del Missouri (Across the wide Missouri) (Director), con Richard Anderson, George Chandler, Frankie Darro,
1950: The Happy Years (Director), con Leon Ames, Claudia Barret, Scotty Beckett,
1950: The Next Voice You Hear... (Director), con Lillian Bronson, Jeff Corey, Tom d'Andrea,
1949: Battleground (Director), con Leon Ames, Guy Anderson, Jim Arness,
1948: Yellow Sky (Director), con Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark,
1947: The Magic Town (Director), con E.J. Ballantine, Ann Doran, Frank Fenton,
1946: Gallant Journey (Director), con Fernando Alvarado, Conrad Binyon, Janet Blair,
1946: The Iron Curtain (Director), con Dana Andrews, Leslies Barrie, Edna Best,
1945: This Man's Navy (Director), con Wallace Beery, Steve Brodie, Paul Cavanaugh,
1945: También somos seres humanos (Story of G.I. Joe) (Director), con Gene Garrick, Yolanda Lacca, Billy Murphy,
1944: Air Ship Squadron No. 4 (Director: documentary),
1943: Buffalo Bill (Director), con Evelyn Beresford, Sidney Blackmer, Matt Briggs,
1943: Lady of Burlesque (Director), con Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg,
1942: The Ox-Bow Incident (Director), con Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Matt Bridges,
1942: Thunder Birds (Director), con Iris Adrian, George Barbier, Nana Bryant,
1941: The Great Man's Lady (Director), con George Chandler, Lloyd Corrigan, William Davidson,
1941: Roxie Hart (Director), con Iris Adrian, Sara Allgood, Morris Ankrum,
1940: Reaching for the Sun (Director), con Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken,
1939: Beau Geste (Director), con Stanley Andrews, Arthur Aylesworth, Henry Brandin,
1939: The Light That Failed (Director), con Muriel Angelus, Ferike Borros, Ronald Colman,
1938: Men with wings (Director), con Donald O'Connor, Joan Leslie, Walter Abel,
1937: Nothing Sacred (Director), con Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winniger,
1937: Nace una estrella (A Star is born) (Director), con Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou,
1936: The Robin Hood of El Dorado (Director), con Warner Baxter, Bruce Cabot, Carlos de Woldaz,
1936: Tarzan escapes (Director: /xx/), Dirección Richard Thorpe, John Farrow, James C. McKay, George B. Seitz, con , Maureen O'Sullivan, ,
1936: Una chica de provincias (The small town girl) (Director), Dirección Robert Z. Leonard, con Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes,
1935: The call of the wild (Director), con Herman Bing, Tyler Brooks, James Burke,
1935: Exclusive Story (Guión), Dirección Edward Ludwig, con James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, J. Carrol Naish,
1934: Heroes for sale (Director), con Robert Barrat, Richard Barthelmess, Ward Bond,
1934: Una avería en la línea (Looking for Trouble) (Director), con Franklyn Ardell, Morgan Conway, Constance Cummings,
1934: Stingaree (Director), con George Barraud, Mary Boland, Andy Devine,
1934: The President vanishes (Director), con Edwin Arnold, Janet Beecher, Sidney Blackmer,
1934: Viva Villa ! (Director: (/xx/)), Dirección Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, con Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Émile Chautard,
1933: Frisco Jenny (Director), con Louis Calhern, Ruth Chatterton, Donald Cook,
1933: Central Airport (Director), con Richard Barthelmess, Tom Brown, Sally Eilers,
1933: Midnight Mary (Director), con Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone,
1933: Lilly Turner (Director), con Robert Barrat, George Brent, Mae Busch,
1933: College Coach (Director), con Herman Bing, Arthur Byron, Ann Dvorak,
1933: Wild boys of the road (Director), con Robert Barrat, Ward Bond, Frankie Darro,
1932: The Purchase Price (Director), con Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot,
1932: Hatchet Man (Director), con Edmund Breese, Duddley Digges, Leslie Fenton,
1932: Love is a Racket (Director), con William Burress, Cecil Cunningham, Frances Dee,
1932: The Conquerors (Director), con Edna May Oliver, Wally Albright, Donald Cook,
1932: So big! (Director), con Hardie Albright, Lionel Belmore, Harry Beresford,
1931: Night Nurse (Director), con Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell,
1931: Public Enemy (Director), con Robert Emmett O'Connor, James Cagney, Jean Harlow,
1931: Star Witness (Director), con Sally Blane, Guy d'Ennery, Edgar Deering,
1931: Safe in Hell (Director), con Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralph Harolde,
1930: Dangerous Paradise (Director), con Richard Arlen, Nancy Carroll, Willie Fung,
1930: Young Eagles (Director), con Virginia Bruce, Jean Arthur, Stanley Blystone,
1930: May be it's love (Director), con Joan Bennett, Geo Bickel, Joe E. Brown,
1930: Other men's women (Director), con Mary Astor, Joan Blondell, James Cagney,
1929: Chinatown Nights (Director), con Wallace Beery, Tetsu Komai, Frank McHugh,
1929: The man I love (Director), con Richard Arlen, Olga Baclanova, Mary Brian,
1929: Woman Trap (Director), con Evelyn Brent, William Davidson, Effie Ellsler,
1928: Ladies of the Mob (Director), con Mary Alden, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow,
1928: Beggars of Life (Director), con Richard Arlen, Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks,
1928: The Legion of the Condemned (Director), con Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Barry Norton,
1927: Wings (Director), con Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen,
1926: You never know women (Director), con Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook,
1926: The Boob (Director), con George K. Arthur, Edythe Chapman, Joan Crawford,
1926: The Cat's Pajamas (Director), con Betty Bronson, Ricardo Cortez, Arlette Marchal,
1925: When Husbands flirt (Director),
1924: Not a drum was heard (Director),
1924: The Circus Cow-Boy (Director), con Buck Jones, Marguerite Clayton, Marian Nixon,
1924: The Vagabond Trail (Director), con Buck Jones, Marian Nixon, Charles Coleman,
1923: Cupid's Fireman (Director),
1923: The Man who won (Director),
1923: Second Love (Director),
1923: Big Dan (Director), con Lydia Yeamans Titus,
1922: Dust in Fonham (Director),
1919: Evangeline (Interpretación: British lieutenant ), Dirección Raoul Walsh, con Miriam Cooper, Alan Roscoe, Spottiswoode Aitken,
1919: A Knicker-bocker Buckaroo (Interpretación: Henry), Dirección Albert Parker, con Ernest Butterworth, Frank Campeau, Edythe Chapman,
1919: The Unwritten Code (Ayudante del Director), Dirección Bernard J. Durning, con Shirley Mason, Ormi Hawley, Matt Moore,

Publicados
Jean Mitry, Filmographie Universelle, Tome XIV, pg 25ff, Paris 1971

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