Raoul Walsh

Walsh was then hired to direct and star in In Old Arizona a film about O. Walsh's contract at Warners expired in 1953. The movie starred then unknown John Wayne whom Walsh discovered as prop boy Marion Morrison and renamed after Revolutionary War general Mad Anthony Wayne about whom Walsh happened to be reading a book about at the time.

He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic The Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and White Heat (1949) with James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. His last directorial effort came in 1964.