An adjunct camera operator for director Allan Dwan in the early teens, Victor Fleming was a director of photography by 1915, & worked under D.W. Griffith's supervision as well as for Dwan on several films with Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks likewise starred within Fleming's 1st both films as a director: 1919's Whenever a Clouds Roll By, co-directed by Theodore Reed, and his solo effort of the below season, A Mollycoddle. Fleming helmed many rugged actioners in the Twenties, & became the dependable craftsman of neutral however handsome films at MGM in the 1930s. He showed skill at films for immature audiences — Treasure Island, Captains Courageous, The Wizard of Oz. Fleming enjoyed a reputation as a super hard fellow, & was known to keep around when shot dead a select few untamed animal (even a catamount) which was howling outside his personal, & allowing a carcase at the front of the home as a warning, although whether the warning was to more uncivilized animals or even to more homo is unreadable.

Fleming was too the special director of actor Clark Gable, and getting guided him around Red Dust (1932) and End line text Pilot (1938), was brought around to choose across a counsel of Gone with the Wind (1939). His virtually all notable films of the '40s were a Spencer Tracy films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Tortilla Flat (1942), and A Guy Named Joe (1944), and his final film, Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman.

Virtually all notable among his works come Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Filmography as director includes

Joan of Arc (1948) Adventure (1945) A Guy Named Joe (1943) Tortilla Flat (1942) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Gone with the Wind (1939) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Great Waltz (1938) Test Pilot (1938) Captains Courageous (1937) The Good Earth (1937) The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) Reckless (1935) Treasure Island (1934) Bombshell (1933) The White Sister (1933) Red Dust (1932) The Wet Parade (1932) Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931) Renegades (1930) Common Clay (1930) The Virginian (1929) The Wolf Song (1929) ''Abie's Irish Rose (1929) The Awakening (1928) The Rough Riders (1927) Hula (1927) The Way of All Flesh (1927) Mantrap (1926) The Blind Goddess (1926) Lord Jim (1925) A Son of His Father (1925) Adventure (1925) The Devil's Cargo (1925) Code of the Sea (1924) Empty Hands (1924) The Call of the Canyon (1923) To the Last Man (1923) Law of the Lawless (1923) Dark Secrets (1923) Anna Ascends (1922) Red Hot Romance (1922) The Lane That Had No Turning (1922) Woman's Place (1921) Mama's Affair (1921) The Mollycoddle (1920) When the Clouds Roll by'' (1919)