Henry king bio

American film director

Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and directed seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres and first started to take small film roles in 1912. Between 1913 and 1925, he appeared as an actor in approximately sixty films. He directed for the first time in 1915 and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and '30s. He was twice nominated for the Best DirectorOscar. In 1944, he was awarded the first Golden Globe Award for Best Director for his film The Song of Bernadette. He worked most often with Tyrone Power and Gregory Peck and for 20th Century Fox.

Henry King was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards excellence of cinematic achievements every year, and was the last surviving founder. He directed more than 100 films in his career. In 1955, King was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by the George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

Biography

King was born on his family's farm near Christianburg, Virginia. When he was young they moved to Lafayette. King started studying engineering but he had become interested in theatre at school and decided to become an actor. He joined a stock company in Roanoke, the Empire Stock Company, and began to tour the country doing plays.King later joined the Osmond Star Company, the Commonwealth Company, and the Jolly American Tramp Show. He also began directing theatre.

King began appearing in films in 1912, initially for the Lubin Manufacturing Company on the West Coast on $35 a week. He was wit

Henry King was an English poet and minister who rose to the position of Bishop of Chichester, following in his father’s footsteps.

He was born in January 1592, the son of John King, Bishop of London.  Such privileged family circumstances allowed him to receive a good education, starting at a fairly newly opened establishment in Thame, Oxfordshire called Lord Williams’s School.  He went on to Westminster School before going up to Oxford to study at Christ Church College.  King obtained his Bachelors’ degree in 1611 and then a Masters’ three years later.  His career in the church began as a prebend at St Paul’s Cathedral in January 1616 and, the following year, he was made Archdeacon of Colchester.  His progress in ecclesiastical circles was steady with a particular honour being his appointment as Chaplain in Ordinary to King James.

He also had connections in literary society, being a good friend of the much revered metaphysical poet John Donne, also a church man.  Other friends included Sir Henry Blount, Izaak Walton and Ben Jonson amongst other famous writers of the day.  His elevation to the position of Bishop of Chichester in early 1642 coincided with unhappy times for the church, with Parliament decreeing that all bishops should lose their votes in the House of Lords.  His episcopal palace in the Sussex town was seized, along with his valuable library.  Other estates were also impounded as those with loyalties to the crown were severely dealt with.  He was forced to spend the next few years living in Langley, Buckinghamshire at his brother-in-law’s house.

King’s fortunes took a turn for the better when King Charles II took the throne in 1660, thus heralding the time of Restoration, and he returned once more to his position as Bishop of Chichester.  Throughout the years of upheaval he had been a prolific writer, often engaged in the writing of elegies for royal personages.  He also produced the same on his good friends Johnson and Donne.  He was, though,  ne

American orchestra leader, pianist (1906–1974)

Henry King (February 8, 1906 – August 8, 1974) was an American orchestra leader and pianist who achieved significant success as a recording artist, hotel bandleader, and as leader of radio orchestras. He was most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Today he is remembered as the orchestra leader of the Burns and Allen radio program.

Biography

Henry King was born in February 8, 1906 in New York. He initially intended to be a classical concert pianist, having studied under Walter Damrosch for six years. Finding pop music to be more lucrative, he organized his first band in the early 1930s. The band was a society band, not a jazz band, and as the band became successful it found engagement at the most prestigious hotels.

Over his career, King believed his band to have broadcast more than 5000 remotes. His theme was the Mitchell Parish-Frank Signorelli composition, "A Blues Serenade". King became the band leader of the Burns and AllenCampbell's Tomato Juice program Adventures of Gracie in 1936, and his first appearance was on September 2 that year. During this time period, he resided in San Francisco, but traveled to Hollywood on the day of the broadcast. He married Baltimore resident Vilma Lewis in January 1937 in the very early hours of the morning, given special dispensation as their careers interfered with a marriage during normal hours. This event was incorporated