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Bessie Love (sister-in-law) [1] Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." [2]
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) was an American film director who made 40 films between 1926 and 1970. He is responsible for classic films in genres ranging from film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction, and Western.
Aside from their displays of great craftsmanship, the answer is director Howard Hawks, one of the most celebrated of American filmmakers, who ironically, was little celebrated by his peers in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during his career.
May 26, 2024 · Howard Hawks, American motion-picture director who maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the ’70s. His movies included Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, To Have and Have Not, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo.
Aug 7, 2023 · Howard Hawks is a legendary Hollywood filmmaker with such varied classics as western Rio Bravo and screwball comedy His Girl Friday to his name. Which Howard Hawks movies are the most iconic? Screen Rant
Aug 30, 2019 · Directed by Howard Hawks, Henry Koster, Henry Hathaway, Jean Negulesco and Henry King, 1952
May 27, 2016 · Howard Hawks: 10 essential films + 3 underrated ones. Across film noir, action-adventure, westerns and screwball comedies, Howard Hawks made some of the most flat-out entertaining movies you could ever see. Sometimes championing 10 just isn't enough...
When Howard Hawks came to visit the Chicago Film Festival in 1968, they asked Charles Flynn to get up on the stage and introduce him. And Flynn, who was helping to run Doc Films at the University of Chicago at the time, gave an introduction that was so simple in its eloquence that I remembered it the other day, when I learned Hawks had died.
Howard Hawks, (born May 30, 1896, Goshen, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 26, 1977, Palm Springs, Calif.), U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. He served as a pilot in World War I, then wrote screenplays in Hollywood (from 1922) and directed several projects before making his first major film, A Girl in Every Port (1928).
Rio Bravo (1959) Passed | 141 min | Drama, Western. A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson.
