D'entre a suya filmografía como director, se puet destacar bellas cintas como To the Last Man (1923, con Richard Dix, Lois Wilson y Noah Beery), The Devil's Cargo (1925, con Wallace Beery, Pauline Starke y Claire Adams), Abie's Irish Rose (1928, con Charles Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt y J. Farrell MacDonald), Treasure Island (1934, con Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Stander y Otto Kruger), Captains Courageous (1937, con Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas y Charley Grapewin), The Wizard of Oz (1939, con Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley y Billie Burke), Gone with the Wind (1939, con Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Thomas Mitchell y Barbara O'Neil), A Guy Named Joe (1943, con Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson y Ward Bond), u Joan of Arc (1948, con Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan y J. Carrol Naish).