W.S. Van Dyke
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Born in San Diego to a judge who died the day he arrived, he grew up touring vaudeville with his actress mother, learning school lessons wherever the troupe stopped and later attending business school in Seattle while holding assorted jobs. After early work as D. W. Griffith’s assistant on The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, he directed his first silent picture in 1917 and honed his craft on lo…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
