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Henry Hathaway His movie career was interrupted by World War I. After his discharge he briefly tried a career in finance but returned to Hollywood to work as an assistant director under such directors as Frank Lloyd, Paul Bern, Josef von Sternberg and Victor Fleming, whom Hathaway credited for his eventual success.
by Glenn Lovell. Telluride, Colo. — During his 40 years of making sprawling action pictures ‒ everything from “Lives of the Bengal Lancer” with Gary Cooper to the original “True Grit” with John Wayne ‒ director Henry Hathaway earned a reputation for being, in the words of one screenwriter, “probably the toughest son of a bitch in Hollywood.”
"Henry Hathaway is a director without complexes or neuroses even when his material is saturated with these modern accoutrements... Hathaway's charm consists chiefly of minor virtues, particularly a sense of humor, uncorrupted by major pretensions, but this charm is also a limiting factor." - Andrew Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968)
Feb 12, 1985 · Veteran director Henry Hathaway, whose 66 films included "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" and "Call Northside 777," died Monday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center, where he had been under treatment ...
How the West Was Won: Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe. With Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones. A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
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Henry Hathaway (Sacramento, 1898 - Los Ángeles, 1985) Director de cine estadounidense. Nacido en el seno de una familia vinculada al mundo del espectáculo (su madre fue actriz y su padre representante artístico), desde muy pequeño intervino como actor en una serie de películas dirigidas por Allan Dwan y Frank Lloyd, labor que interrumpió durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Hathaway said his father’s name was Henry Rhody, but he appears to have been a bit of a theatrical jack of all trades — advance man, stage manager, actor — under the name Rhody Hathaway. Hathaway said his mother’s maiden name was Jean Weil, though other sources say she was born Marquise Lillie de Fiennes in Budapest in 1876.
