{{short description|Assistant Director}} {{about||the Chinese entrepreneur|Paul Cheung Kwok Wing|the member of the dancing duo|Toy & Wing}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Paul Wing | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|8|14}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|5|29|1892|8|14}} | death_place = Portsmouth, Virginia, USA | occupation = Assistant director | years_active = 1927–1935 | spouse = | children = }}
'''Paul Wing''' (August 14, 1892 – May 29, 1957) was an assistant director at Paramount Pictures.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Harty|first=John P. Jr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUWQDAAAQBAJ&q=paul+wing+assistant+director&pg=PA28|title=The Cinematic Challenge: Filming Colonial America: Volume 1: The Golden Age, 1930-1950|date=2016|publisher=Hillcrest Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-63505-146-9|language=en}}</ref> He won the 1935 Best Assistant Director Academy Award for ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' along with Clem Beauchamp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1936|title=The 8th Academy Awards – 1936|publisher=|accessdate=30 April 2017}}</ref> Wing was the assistant director on only two films owing to his service in the U.S. Army. During his service, Wing was in a prisoner of war camp<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rG8dAQAAMAAJ&q=Colonol+Paul+R+Wing&pg=PA39|title=Annals of the Wing Family of America Incorporated|date=1954|publisher=Wing Family of America, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref> that was portrayed in the film ''The Great Raid'' (2005).
==Career== Early in his adult life, Wing worked as a reporter on the ''Chicago Tribune'', after which he began working on radio. His responsibilities included writing scripts for Fred Allen and Phil Baker.<ref name=g/> In the early 1930s, he became an announcer and had his own 15-minute program, ''Paul Wing the Story Man'', on NBC radio.<ref>{{cite news |title=Network accounts |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1933/1933-03-15-BC.pdf |access-date=March 1, 2020 |work=Broadcasting |date=March 15, 1933 |page=22}}</ref> By 1936, the program was available in syndication by NBC's Thesaurus transcription service.<ref>{{cite news |title=Transcriptions |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1936/1936-04-01-BC.pdf |access-date=March 2, 2020 |work=Broadcasting |date=April 1, 1936 |page=49}}</ref> Wing was also NBC's director of children's programs.<ref>{{cite news |title=Personal Notes |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1937/1937-08-15-BC.pdf |access-date=March 2, 2020 |work=Broadcasting |date=August 15, 1937 |page=33}}</ref> As "NBC's spelling master" he also had the ''Spelling Bee'' program, which began on NBC-Red in 1937.<ref>{{cite news |title=Paul Wing Returns |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1938/1938-09-15-BC.pdf |access-date=March 2, 2020 |work=Broadcasting |date=September 15, 1938 |page=68}}</ref>
In the mid-1940s, Wing made children's recordings for RCA Victor.<ref name=g>{{cite news |last1=Archer |first1=Thomas |title=Paul Wing's magic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45930228/paul-wing/ |accessdate=March 1, 2020 |work=The Gazette |date=December 13, 1947 |location=Canada, Montreal |page=22|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> A 1949 recording of the story ''The Little Engine That Could'' narrated by Wing was inducted to the National Recording Registry in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/little%20engine%20that%20could.pdf | title=The Little Engine That Could - Paul Wing (1948) | year=2009| first=Roy E. | last=Plotnic }}</ref>
Wing was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March and was later rescued in the Raid at Cabanatuan by U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerillas, a story told in ''The Great Raid'' (2005). Paul Wing died in May 1957, in a veteran's hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, following a coronary.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rG8dAQAAMAAJ&q=Paul+Reuben+Wing&pg=PA39|title=Annals of the Wing Family of America Incorporated|date=1954|publisher=Wing Family of America, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref>
==Filmography== *''Stark Love'' (1927) *''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' (1935; won Academy Award) *''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' (1948; voice only)<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00010235 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer : With Christmas Greetings From Montgomery Ward|Library of Congress]</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0934963|name=Paul Wing}} * {{Find a Grave|55546998}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Paul Wing}} * [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/100409/Wing_Paul Paul Wing ("Recordings" section)]<!--The biography section copies from Wikipedia thus is not a WP:RS --> at Discography of American Historical Recordings
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