Walter Lang

Walter Lang

Born August 10, 1896· Memphis, Tennessee, USA

† Died February 7, 1972

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Raised in Memphis before moving to New York City, Lang entered a film office as a clerk, absorbed the craft through assistant-directing duties, and briefly pursued painting in Paris’s Montparnasse quarter before returning to the motion-picture trade. He debuted as a director with the silent feature The Red Kimono in 1925, and by the mid-1930s had joined 20th Century Fox, where he became known for…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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