American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1887)

Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and directed the widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne in his first leading role, The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney, Gladys George, Priscilla Lane and Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo and Margaret Wycherly. He directed his last film in 1964. His work has been noted as influences on directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese.

Born

1887

March 11

Died

1980

Era

1880s

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843 Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1387 Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.

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The world in 1980

When Raoul departed

april 12 The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
april 12 Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
april 12 Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
april 18 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Anton Yelchin 1989–2016 American actor (born 1989) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) Benjamin Tupper 1738–1792 American general and surveyor (born 1738) Carl Ruggles 1876–1971 American composer and painter (died 1971) Gary Barnett 1963– English footballer and manager Henry Cowell 1897– American pianist and composer (died 1965) Margaret Oakley Dayhoff 1925–1983 American chemist and academic (born 1925) Peter Berg 1964– American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Qasem Soleimani 1957–2020 Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (born 1957)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1887

Albert M. Greenfield 1887– Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967) Alfred Lee Loomis 1887– American physicist and philanthropist (died 1975) Alvin C. York 1887–1964 American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964) Beatrice Kerr 1887– Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971) C. R. M. F. Cruttwell 1887–1941 English historian (born 1887) Charles I of Austria (died 1922) 1887– Charles Nordhoff 1887–1947 English-American lieutenant and author (born 1887) Chico Marx 1887–1961 American actor (died 1961) Eubie Blake 1887–1983 American pianist and composer (born 1887)

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