Charles Vidor

Hungarian-American film director (1900-1959)

0.61body-of-work score · ranked #1302 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
July 27, 1900 · Budapest
Died
June 4, 1959 · Vienna
Nationality
United States, Austria–Hungary, Hungary
Work
film director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1946 · United States · drama, film-noir, romance

    National Film Registry (inducted 2013) · Criterion Collection spine #795 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.503 citations
  2. 2

    1932 · United States · horror, sci-fi

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 36 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1932The Mask of Fu Manchu
  • 1933Sensation Hunters
  • 1934Double Door
  • 1935His Family Tree
  • 1935Strangers All
  • 1935The Arizonian
  • 1936Muss 'Em Up
  • 1937A Doctor's Diary
  • 1937She's No Lady
  • 1937The Great Gambini
  • 1939Blind Alley
  • 1939Romance of the Redwoods
  • 1939Those High Grey Walls
  • 1940My Son, My Son!
  • 1940The Lady in Question
  • 1941Ladies in Retirement
  • 1941New York Town
  • 1941They Dare Not Love
  • 1942The Tuttles of Tahiti
  • 1943First Comes Courage
  • 1943The Desperadoes
  • 1944Cover Girl
  • 1944Together Again
  • 1945A Song to Remember
  • 1945Over 21
  • 1946Gilda
  • 1948The Loves of Carmen
  • 1951It's a Big Country
  • 1951Thunder in the East
  • 1952Hans Christian Andersen
  • 1954Rhapsody
  • 1955Love Me or Leave Me
  • 1956The Swan
  • 1957A Farewell to Arms
  • 1957The Joker Is Wild
  • 1960Song Without End