Howard Hawks filmography

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 including film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction, and Western.

Films directed

Year Title Notes Other roles
Silent films
1926 The Road to Glory Lost film Writer
Fig Leaves Colour scenes included
1927 The Cradle Snatchers Partially lost
Paid to Love
1928 A Girl in Every Port Writer
Fazil
1929 Trent's Last Case
Sound films
1928 The Air Circus Co-directed with Lewis Seiler / Lost film
1930 The Dawn Patrol Writer
1931 The Criminal Code Producer
1932 Scarface Co-directed with Richard Rosson Producer, Writer
The Crowd Roars Writer
Tiger Shark
1933 Today We Live Co-directed with Richard Rosson
1934 Twentieth Century Producer
1935 Barbary Coast
1936 Ceiling Zero
The Road to Glory
Come and Get It Co-directed with William Wyler
1938 Bringing Up Baby Producer
1939 Only Angels Have Wings
1940 His Girl Friday
1941 Sergeant York
Ball of Fire
1943 Air Force Producer
1944 To Have and Have Not
1946 The Big Sleep
1948 Red River 2nd unit director Arthur Rosson Producer & Presenter
A Song Is Born First Technicolor film
1949 I Was a Male War Bride
1952 The Big Sky Producer
Monkey Business
"Ransom of Red Chief" from O. Henry's Full House
1953 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Technicolor film
1955 Land of the Pharaohs Producer
1959 Rio Bravo
1962 Hatari! Producer & Presenter
1964 Man's Favorite Sport? Producer
1965 Red Line 7000 Producer, Writer
1966 El Dorado Similar idea to Rio Bravo / Technicolor film Producer & Presenter
1970 Rio Lobo Similar idea to Rio Bravo / Technicolor film / Final film Hawks directed Producer

Films produced only

Year Title Genre Cast Studio Notes
1943 Corvette K-225 War Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald Universal Pictures producer, directed by Richard Rosson
1951 The Thing from Another World Science fiction Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Dewey Martin Winchester Pictures producer, directed by Christian Nyby[1]

Documentary appearances

Year Title Notes
1967 Cinema episode: "Howard Hawks"
1970 Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo making-of documentary
1972 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks documentary
1977 Hollywood Greats episode: "Humphrey Bogart"

Unfinished projects

Year Title Notes
1932 La foule hurle French-language version of The Crowd Roars directed by John Daumery, featuring footage from Hawks film
1933 The Prizefighter and the Lady resigned, replaced by W.S. Van Dyke
1934 Viva Villa! resigned, replaced by Jack Conway
1943 The Outlaw resigned, replaced by Howard Hughes

References

  1. ^ "And let's get the record straight. The movie was directed by Howard Hawks. Verifiably directed by Howard Hawks. He let his editor, Christian Nyby, take credit. But the kind of feeling between the male characters—the camaderie, the group of men that has to fight off the evil—it's all pure Hawksian." Carpenter, John (speaker) (2001-09-04). Hidden Values: The Movies of the '50s (Television production). Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2009-04-01.