Profile of Howard Hawks on Famous Like Me

Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era.

He was born Howard Winchester Hawks in Goshen, Indiana. He died in Palm Springs, California, from the aftermath of a fall.

Hawks was known for his versatility as a director, filming comedies, dramas, and Westerns with equal ease and skill. Critic Leonard Maltin has labelled Hawks "the greatest American director who is not a household name," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or Hitchcock, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Howard Hawks has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.

Hawks was notorious for fabricating stories about the movie business, usually in a way which inflated his already considerable contributions to it. One such story has it that Hawks told Ernest Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of the worst thing that Hemingway had ever written, at which point Hemingway challenged him to make a movie out of To Have and Have Not.

Filmography (director)

• The Road to Glory (1926)
• Fig Leaves (1926)
• The Cradle Snatchers (1927)
• Paid to Love (1927)
• A Girl in Every Port (1928)
• Fazil (1928)
• The Air Circus (1928)
• Trent's Last Case (1929)
• The Dawn Patrol (1930)
• The Criminal Code (1931)
• La Foule hurle (1932)
• Scarface (1932)
• The Crowd Roars (1932)
• Tiger Shark (1932)
• Today We Live (1933)
• The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) (uncredited)
• Viva Villa! (1934) (uncredited)
• Twentieth Century (1934)
• Barbary Coast (1935)
• Ceiling Zero (1936)
• Sutter's Gold (1936) (uncredited)
• The Road to Glory (1936)
• Come and Get It (1936)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• Air Force (1943)
• The Outlaw (1943) (uncredited)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Red River (1948)
• A Song Is Born (1948)
• I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
• The Thing From Another World (1951) (uncredited)
• The Big Sky (1952)
• Monkey Business (1952)
• O. Henry's Full House (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (1952)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• Hatari! (1962)
• Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
• Red Line 7000 (1965)
• El Dorado (1966)
• Rio Lobo (1970)

Books

• Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, Todd MacCarthy (Grove Press, 1997)
• Howard Hawks: American Artist, Jim Hillier, Peter Wollen (British Film Institute, 1997)
• Hawks by Hawks, Joseph MacBride (University of California Press, 1982)

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