Walter Lang Biography

Fast Facts

• Came in ninth place for Top Director at the 1961 Laurel Awards
• His film "Call Me Madam" was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 1953
• Was nominated form three Directors Guild of America Awards, but never won
• Earned his degree from the University of Tennessee
• During World War I, he served in France with the American Expeditionary Force
• Joined a gathering of artists and writers in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France, hoping to fulfill his ambitions of becoming a painter, but eventually returned home to make films
• Found clerical work at a film production company after moving to New York City as a young man, and he became interested in filmmaking as a result
• Directed such well-known films as "The King and I" and "Call Me Madam․"
• Directed most of his 50 movies while associated with 20th Century Fox
• Designated his good friend Carole Lombard as his son's godmother