Louis King

Louis King was an American actor and film director, born on 28 June 1898 and died on 7 September 1962. He directed westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His career therefore covers the silent era, the arrival of sound and the studio years that followed, and the genres he worked in were the staple output of Hollywood programming for decades. He is included here as a working director of popular genre pictures, a category of filmmaker whose steady output shaped what ordinary cinema audiences saw even when it is less discussed than prestige productions. This entry records only what its source lead supports.