Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and El Dorado (1967).
In 1975, Hawks was awarded the Honorary Academy Award as “a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema,” and in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.
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Howard Hawks Biography / Wiki
| Name | Howard Hawks |
| Also Know | Howard Winchester Hawks, 하워드 혹스 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Goshen, Indiana, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1896-05-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1977-12-26 |
Howard Hawks Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Himself | 1973-01-01 | A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures… |
| Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life | 1978-04-15 | Documentary featuring the last filmed interview with director Howard Hawks… | |
| Howard Hawks: Reporter’s Notebook | Self (Archive Footage) | 1999-01-01 | A review of Howard Hawks’s work, focusing on “His Girl Friday”…. |
| Hawks on Hawks | Self | 2017-01-10 | This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter Bogd… |
| 1925 Studio Tour | Himself | 1925-04-09 | A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made…. |
| Metropolis Refound | Himself | 2010-02-13 | Argentinian film historians find a complete print of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis†(1927) at Buenos Aires Film Museum and take it to Germany for its r… |
| Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo | Self | 1970-12-09 | George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western “Rio Lobo.” In this special we see him talking t… |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 3 | Self | 1942-01-01 | Hedda reports on a dog training school and a Hemingway hunting trip…. |
| Commemoration – Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo | Archive Footage | 2007-01-01 | … |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | Himself | 1995-05-21 | Martin Scorsese celebrates American movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the seventies…. |
| The Dawn Patrol | German Pilot (uncredited) | 1930-07-10 | World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a… |
| 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year | 2009-07-02 | This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood’s greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special…. | |
| Scarface | Man on Bed (uncredited) | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
| You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Himself (archive footage) | 2008-05-15 | Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century…. |
| Filmmakers in Action | Self (archive footage) | 2006-09-15 | What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors’ copyright? What is their legal status in… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
Howard Hawks Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Rio Bravo | Director | 1959-03-17 | The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After … |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Director | 1953-07-14 | Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus’ rich father, Esmond Sr., who thin… |
| Scarface | Director | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
| The Big Sleep | Director | 1946-08-23 | Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the comple… |
| Bringing Up Baby | Director | 1938-02-18 | David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo… |
| His Girl Friday | Director | 1940-01-18 | Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried t… |
| Red River | Director | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
| Hatari! | Director | 1962-06-19 | A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?… |
| To Have and Have Not | Director | 1945-01-20 | A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII…. |
| El Dorado | Director | 1966-12-17 | Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help… |
| I Was a Male War Bride | Director | 1949-08-26 | Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and… |
| O. Henry’s Full House | Director | 1952-08-07 | Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic’s acclaim was “The Cop and the Anthem”. Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is… |
| Monkey Business | Director | 1952-09-03 | Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixe… |
| Twentieth Century | Director | 1934-05-11 | A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him…. |
| Rio Lobo | Director | 1970-04-01 | After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally’s unit and the loss of a close friend…. |
| Ball of Fire | Director | 1941-12-02 | A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is… |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Director | 1955-07-24 | In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the “second life.” To this end he enlists th… |
| The Criminal Code | Director | 1930-12-31 | After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year… |
| The Big Sky | Director | 1952-08-19 | Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. Th… |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Director | 1939-05-15 | Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who a… |
| Air Force | Director | 1943-03-20 | The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of t… |
| Sergeant York | Director | 1941-09-27 | Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel… |
| Man’s Favorite Sport? | Director | 1964-01-31 | Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr… |
| A Song Is Born | Director | 1948-10-19 | The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub… |
| Red Line 7000 | Director | 1965-11-09 | The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world…. |
| The Dawn Patrol | Director | 1930-07-10 | World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a… |
| Ceiling Zero | Director | 1936-01-16 | War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot’s girl-friend and d… |
| Come and Get It | Director | 1936-11-06 | An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter…. |
| Barbary Coast | Director | 1935-10-13 | Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling ho… |
| Today We Live | Director | 1933-03-03 | Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they “didn’t wait.”… |
| Fazil | Director | 1928-06-04 | An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their ba… |
| The Road to Glory | Director | 1936-09-04 | The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and m… |
| Paid to Love | Director | 1927-07-23 | An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank’s money and shore up the country’s weak economy in order to maximize the … |
| Tiger Shark | Director | 1932-09-24 | A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate…. |
| The Crowd Roars | Director | 1932-04-16 | Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to beco… |
| A Girl in Every Port | Director | 1928-02-26 | Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come betwe… |
| Fig Leaves | Director | 1926-08-22 | Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompt… |
| Trent’s Last Case | Director | 1928-07-01 | Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates…. |
| The Cradle Snatchers | Director | 1927-05-28 | To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives -Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd- arrange with three college boy… |
| The Air Circus | Director | 1928-09-29 | Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor’s aviatrix sister…. |
| The Road to Glory | Director | 1926-02-07 | May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight…. |
| A Little Princess | Assistant Director | 1917-11-05 | Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, s… |
| Dinty | Assistant Director | 1920-11-21 | Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers i… |
| The Crowd Roars | Co-Director | 1932-12-31 | French-language version of Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars (1932)…. |
Howard Hawks Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Rio Bravo | Producer | 1959-03-17 | The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After … |
| Scarface | Producer | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
| Bringing Up Baby | Producer | 1938-02-18 | David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo… |
| The Big Sleep | Producer | 1946-08-23 | Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the comple… |
| Red River | Producer | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
| His Girl Friday | Producer | 1940-01-18 | Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried t… |
| The Thing from Another World | Producer | 1951-04-05 | Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost…. |
| Hatari! | Producer | 1962-06-19 | A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?… |
| El Dorado | Producer | 1966-12-17 | Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help… |
| Rio Lobo | Producer | 1970-04-01 | After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally’s unit and the loss of a close friend…. |
| The Criminal Code | Producer | 1930-12-31 | After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year… |
| The Big Sky | Producer | 1952-08-19 | Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. Th… |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Producer | 1939-05-15 | Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who a… |
| Red Line 7000 | Producer | 1965-11-09 | The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world…. |
| Today We Live | Producer | 1933-03-03 | Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they “didn’t wait.”… |
| To Have and Have Not | Producer | 1945-01-20 | A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII…. |
| Sergeant York | Producer | 1941-09-27 | Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel… |
| Twentieth Century | Producer | 1934-05-11 | A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him…. |
| Corvette K-225 | Producer | 1943-09-29 | The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain…. |
| Man’s Favorite Sport? | Producer | 1964-01-31 | Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Story | 1939-05-15 | Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who a… |
| Red Line 7000 | Story | 1965-11-09 | The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world…. |
| Fig Leaves | Story | 1926-08-22 | Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompt… |
| A Girl in Every Port | Story | 1928-02-26 | Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come betwe… |
| The Dawn Patrol | Adaptation | 1930-07-10 | World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a… |
| Indianapolis Speedway | Story | 1939-08-05 | This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film “The Crowd Roars”, stars Pat O’Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid … |
| Tiger Love | Writer | 1924-06-30 | Tiger Love silent film… |
| The Dressmaker from Paris | Story | 1925-03-30 | An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to p… |
| The Crowd Roars | Story | 1932-12-31 | French-language version of Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars (1932)…. |
| The Crowd Roars | Screenstory | 1932-04-16 | Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to beco… |
| Quicksands | Story | 1923-02-28 | Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. … |
| The Road to Glory | Story | 1926-02-07 | May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight…. |
| Underworld | Writer | 1927-08-20 | Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfr… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Scarface | Additional Writing | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
| Red River | Presenter | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
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