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His first daughter is Patty Wellman, and he had a third son, Tim Wellman. In 1974 Wellman published his autobiography, A Short Time for Insanity . William Wellman died of leukemia in 1975 at his Brentwood home in Los Angeles. [ 6 ]
Louis B. Mayer's daughter Irene Mayer Selznick, the first wife of David O. Selznick, said that Wellman was "a terror, a shoot-up-the-town fellow, trying to be a great big masculine I-don't-know-what". The Directors Guild of America in 1973 honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
- February 29, 1896
- December 9, 1975
Oct 14, 2021 · In this interview Maggie Wellman, daughter of the iconic movie director William A. Wellman and author of the book Falling into the Silence, shares her memories growing up in Hollywood, as well as how her father influenced film-making for generations to come.
His second marriage to Margery Chapin, daughter of Frederic Chapin, in 1925 ended the very next year. His third marriage to Marjorie Crawford too ended within a couple of years. His fourth and final marriage was to actress Dorothy Coonan in 1934.
Wellman's father, Arthur Gouverneur Wellman, was a New England Brahmin of English-Welsh-Scottish and Irish descent. William was a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Puritan Thomas Wellman who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1640.
Wellman’s stockbroker father came from a family of means; his mother, an Irish immigrant, was a well-respected probation officer who testified before Congress about juvenile delinquency and whose charges included her son when Wellman was kicked out of high school in Newton, Massachusetts.
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