1887'de New York'ta doğan, 1980'de ölen Raoul Walsh, oyuncu olarak başladı (Griffith'in The Birth of a Nation'ında John Wilkes Booth'u oynadı) ve Hollywood'un büyük aksiyon yönetmenlerinden biri oldu. Gösterişli The Thief of Bagdad'dan (1924) Cagney, Bogart ve Errol Flynn'li 1940'ların Warner Bros. gangster ve savaş filmlerine kadar yüzlerce film yönetti. High Sierra (1941) Bogart'ı yıldız yaptı; White Heat (1949) en iyi gangster filmleri arasındadır. Üslubu hızlı, doğrudan ve süssüzdür.
Filmografi
- Regeneration (1915)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- What Price Glory (1926)
- Sadie Thompson (1928)
- In Old Arizona (1928)
- The Big Trail (1930)
- Me and My Gal (1932)
- Going Hollywood (1933)
- Big Brown Eyes (1936)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939)
- They Drive by Night (1940)
- Dark Command (1940)
- High Sierra (1941)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
- Manpower (1941)
- Gentleman Jim (1942)
- Desperate Journey (1942)
- Background to Danger (1943)
- Northern Pursuit (1943)
- Uncertain Glory (1944) (1944)
- Objective, Burma! (1945)
- San Antonio (1945)
- The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
- The Man I Love (1946)
- Pursued (1947)
- Silver River (1948)
- Fighter Squadron (1948)
- White Heat (1949)
- Colorado Territory (1949)
- Montana (1950)
- Distant Drums (1951)
- Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
- The Enforcer (1951)
- Along the Great Divide (1951)
- Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
- The World in His Arms (1952)
- The Lawless Breed (1952)
- Gun Fury (1953)
- A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
- Saskatchewan (1954)
- The Tall Men (1955)
- Battle Cry (1955)
- The King and Four Queens (1956)
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
- Band of Angels (1957)
- The Naked and the Dead (1958)
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
- Esther and the King (1960)
- A Distant Trumpet (1964)