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Louis King

{{short description|American actor and movie director}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Louis King

| image = Louisking2.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|06|28}}

| birth_place = Christiansburg, Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|09|07|1898|06|28}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Westwood Memorial Park

| occupation = Film director, actor

| relatives = Henry King (brother)}}

Louis King (June 28, 1898 – September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103111520/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/917101/Louis-King New York Times][http://www.citwf.com/person244961.htm Profile], Citwf.com; accessed July 23, 2015.

Early years

King was born in 1898 in Christiansburg, Virginia."California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXB-7TCP : Thu Jul 18 07:22:32 UTC 2024), Entry for Louis King and Vernon D Wood, 14 Feb 1942. His name was also written as L.H. King and Lewis King.British Film Institute (1988). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ne9ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L+H+King%22+%22louis+king%22+%22lewis+king%22 The BFI Companion to the Western]. Athenium. p. 360. {{ISBN|9780233983325}}. A brother of director Henry King, he grew up on a tobacco farm. Their parents died in 1918, after which he moved to California, where his brother was already working in films.{{cite news |last1=Cunningham |first1=Frank |title=Louis King, Who Hails From Lafayette, Va. Is Veteran Director At 34 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/828029681/?match=1&terms=%22Louis%20King%22%20actor |access-date=November 16, 2024 |work=The Times Dispatch |date=December 27, 1936 |location=Virginia, Richmond |page=52|via = Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }}

Career

King first worked for his brother, who was acting and directing for the Balboa Film Company. Then he became a "general handy man" for American Film Company.

He entered the film business in 1919 as a character actor. He specialized in villains and blusterers. He began his career as a director of a series of Westerns in the 1920s as Lewis King: The Bantam Cowboy (1928), The Fightin' Redhead (1928), The Pinto Kid (1928), The Little Buckaroo (1928), The Slingshot Kid (1927), The Boy Rider (1927), Montana Bill (1921), Pirates of the West (1921) and The Gun Runners (1921).

He directed Hollywood action adventures and Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s and 20th Century-Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas in 1943. In the 1950s, he directed Westerns on television, including episodes of Gunsmoke in 1957, the Zane Grey Theater in 1958, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok and The Deputy in 1960–61.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

Death

King died of undisclosed causes on September 7, 1962, in Hollywood, California, at the age of 64.{{cite book |last1=Ellenberger |first1=Allan R. |title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory |date=May 1, 2001 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-0983-9 |page=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Louis+King%22+actor&pg=PA217 |access-date=April 9, 2023 |language=en}}

Partial filmography

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References

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External links

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Category:1962 deaths

Category:1898 births

Category:People from Christiansburg, Virginia

Category:Male actors from Virginia

Category:Film directors from Virginia

Category:Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Category:20th-century American male actors

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