Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo
Spouses
Athole Shearer
(m. 1928; div. 1940)
Slim Keith
(m. 1941; div. 1949)
Dee Hartford
(m. 1953; div. 1959)
Children
3, including Kitty Hawks
Relatives
Kenneth Hawks (brother)
William Hawks (brother)
Mary Astor (sister-in-law)
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] Roger Ebert called Hawks "one of the greatest American directors of pure movies, and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in so many different kinds of genre material."[3] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York (1941) and earned the Honorary Academy Award in 1974.
A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, war films, and westerns. His most popular films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define the "Hawksian woman".
^Kidd, Charles (1986). "Howard Hawks and Mary Astor". Debrett Goes to Hollywood. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-312-00588-7.
^Crouse 2005, p. 250.
^Ebert, Roger (2002). The Great Movies. Broadway Books. pp. 72–73.
the "Hawksian woman". Howard Winchester Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana. He was the first-born child of Frank Winchester Hawks (1865–1950), a wealthy...
HowardHawks (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...
jet set. Keith was married 3 times; firstly to American film director HowardHawks, secondly to American producer Leland Hayward, and finally to British...
She is the daughter of New York socialite Slim Keith and film director HowardHawks and is married to Larry Lederman, a photographer and retired corporate...
traded from the Atlanta Hawks to the Charlotte Hornets, some of his Hawks teammates reportedly cheered. After Charlotte traded Howard to the Washington Wizards...
the site of his death. He was the brother of director HowardHawks and producer William Hawks. Kenneth met actress Mary Astor in 1927; the couple married...
fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for HowardHawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures...
Rio Lobo is a 1970 American Western film directed and produced by HowardHawks and starring John Wayne, from a screenplay by Burton Wohl and Leigh Brackett...
award associate degrees. The college sports teams are nicknamed the Hawks. Howard College participates in Region 5 of the NJCAA, also known as the Western...
time to film director HowardHawks, with whom she had two more children: David, born in 1929, and Barbara, born in 1935. She and Hawks divorced in 1940, reportedly...
Hawks was a stockbroker. By the early 1930s, Hawks was a Hollywood talent agent and, as such, brought novelist William Faulkner to his brother Howard...
is an avid fan of HowardHawks and has repeatedly titled him as his favorite director, drawing openly heavy inspiration from Hawks's style. He has also...
A list of books and essays about HowardHawks: Hawks, Howard (2006). HowardHawks: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-833-3. Hillier...
Threatt was in the depicted Native American language. She was spotted by HowardHawks and cast for the part of an Indian princess being returned to her home...
October 21, 2018) was an American television actress. She was married to HowardHawks from 1953 to 1959. Her sister was actress Eden Hartford; her former brother-in-law...
His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by HowardHawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy...
HowardHawks Mitchell (January 13, 1885, Marietta, Ohio – 1943) was an American mathematician who worked on group theory and number theory and who introduced...
reaction." HowardHawks, who directed him in five films, felt that after losing one of his lungs, Wayne became a much better actor. Hawks explained: "Because...
The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member...
(1940) Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), d. HowardHawks, homage to Bringing Up Baby (1938), also directed by Hawks Send Me No Flowers (1964), d. Norman Jewison...
landed his first starring role, in HowardHawks' auto-racing drama Red Line 7000. It was not a financial success. But Hawks liked Caan and cast him in his...
debut came in Married Too Young (1962). She played Gabrielle in the HowardHawks film, Red Line 7000 (1965) and featured in the Elvis Presley film Paradise...
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