Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1873-08-26
Place of Birth
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Lee De Forest
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.
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Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs
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as Director
as Director
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers from Chauve Souris
as Director
as Producer
as Producer
Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River
as Director
President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds
as Director
as Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
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