Lee De Forest
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 26, 1873
- Place of birth
- Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
- Died
- June 30, 1961
Biography
Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Movies with Lee De Forest
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio 1991 · ★ 7.8
Movies directed by Lee De Forest
- A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor 1923 · ★ 5.2
- Casey at the Bat 1922 · ★ 6.2
- President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds 1924 · ★ 6.3
- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs 1923 · ★ 4.5
- From Far Seville 1923 · ★ 8.0
- Ben Bernie and All the Lads 1923 · ★ 5.5
- Dick Henderson 1926 · ★ 8.0
- Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River 1923 · ★ 9.0
- Weber and Fields Pool Hall 1923
- What the Phonofilm Means 1923
- A Study in Contrasts 1923
- Harlequin Serenade 1923
- Stringed Harmony 1923
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers from Chauve Souris 1923