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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]
Overview. Born. May 30, 1896 · Goshen, Indiana, USA. Died. December 26, 1977 · Palm Springs, California, USA (arteriosclerotic vascular disease with stroke) Birth name. Howard Winchester Hawks. Nicknames. The Silver Fox. Wife No. 2, "Nancy" Gross, went by nickname, "Slim" Height. 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Bio.
Image Credit. Birthday: May 30, 1896 ( Gemini) Born In: Goshen, Indiana, United States. Directors #351. T V & Movie Producers #801. Screenwriters #523. Quick Facts. Also Known As: Howard Winchester Hawks. Died At Age: 81. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Athole Shearer (m. 1928; div. 1940), Dee Hartford (m. 1953; div. 1960), Slim Keith (m. 1941; div. 1949)
May 29, 2018 · Career: Worked in property dept. of Famous Players-Lasky during vacations, Hollywood, 1916–17; designer in airplane factory, 1919–22; worked in independent production as editor, writer, and assistant director, from 1922; in charge of story dept. at Paramount, 1924–25; signed as director for Fox, 1925–29; directed first feature, Road to Glory, 19...
Hawks makes Westerns and war movies, comedies and dramas, backstage romances and melodramas, and he has been doing it since 1926. There is, in fact, almost no kind of movie that Mr. Hawks can not make, and has not made, and there is almost nobody at all who can make them better than he does." Advertisement.
Introduction. Biography. Hawks on Hawks. Archives. Anthologies and Special Issues. Single-Author Volumes. Early Critical Appreciations. The “Hitchcocko-Hawksians” The First Wave of Anglo-American Critical Scholarship. Against the Auteurists. Anglo-American Cinephilic Criticism. Hawks in Collaboration. Hawks, Gender and Sexuality.
May 30, 1896. Goshen, Indiana, United States. Death Details. December 26, 1977. Palm Springs, California, United States. Famous Works. Credits; Film Work. Director (with Lewis Seiler), The Air Circus, Twentieth Century- Fox, 1928. Director, The Dawn Patrol, First National, 1930. Director, The Criminal Code, Columbia, 1931.
