| LC control no. | n 80014931 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Whale, James, 1889-1957 |
| Variant(s) | Whale, James, d. 1957 |
| Other standard no. | nm0001843 http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Whale Q381831 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q381831 |
| Biography/History note | James Whale (1889-1957) was a British-born American film director. |
| Associated country | Great Britain England United States |
| Birth date | 1889-07-22 |
| Death date | 1957-05-29 |
| Place of birth | Dudley (England) |
| Place of death | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Motion pictures--Production and direction |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture director Motion picture directors |
| Found in | Frankenstein, 1974. James Whale, 1995: p. 1, etc. (b. 8-22-1889; d. 5-29-1957; British movie director who lived in Hollywood) MSN.com entertainment WWW site, 13 May 2003: movies, people (James Whale, British-born director, born 22 July 1896, died 29 May 1957) Internet movie database, 13 May 2003 (James Whale, director, born 22 July 1893 in Dudley, England, died 29 May 1957 in Hollywood, Calif.) June 15, 2018 (James Whale (1889-1957); born: July 22, 1889 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, UK; died: May 29, 1957 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) Wikipedia, June 15, 2018 (James Whale (22 July 1889-29 May 1957) was an English film director, theater director and actor; best remembered for his four classic horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935); born Dudley, Worcestershire, England; died Hollywood, California; was openly gay throughout his career) Encyclopædia Britannica online, June 15, 2018 (James Whale; American director; James Whale (born July 22, 1889, Dudley, Worcestershire, England--died May 29, 1957, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), British-born American filmmaker, whose stylish horror films marked him as one of the most-distinctive filmmakers of the early 1930s) Gay history wiki, June 15, 2018 (James Whale; British-born American director, and one of the few gay men of early Hollywood to be openly homosexual. He lived with his partner, producer David Lewis, between approximately 1930-1952; born July 22, 1889 in Dudley, England) <http://gayhistory.wikidot.com/james-whale> |
| Associated language | eng |
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