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 ranging from film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction and Western.

Films directed[edit]

Year	Title	Studio	Genre	Cast	Notes	Other roles
Silent films
1926	The Road to Glory	Fox	Drama	May McAvoy	Lost film	Writer
1926	Fig Leaves	Fox	Comedy	George O'Brien, Olive Borden	Colour scenes included	Writer
1927	The Cradle Snatchers	Fox	Comedy	Louise Fazenda, Diane Ellis
1927	Paid to Love	Fox	Comedy	George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, William Powell
1928	A Girl in Every Port	Fox	Comedy	Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong		Writer
1928	Fazil	Fox	Romance	Charles Farrell, Greta Nissen
1929	Trent's Last Case	Fox	Detective	Raymond Griffith
Sound films
1928	The Air Circus	Fox	Drama	Arthur Lake, Sue Carol	Co-directed with Lewis Seiler / Lost film
1930	The Dawn Patrol	First National / Vitaphone	War	Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.		Writer
1931	The Criminal Code	Columbia	Crime	Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes		Producer
1932	Scarface	Caddo Company	Crime	Paul Muni	Co-directed with Richard Rosson	Producer, Writer
1932	The Crowd Roars	Warner Bros.	Drama	James Cagney		Writer
1932	Tiger Shark	First National	Romance	Edward G. Robinson
1933	Today We Live	MGM	Romance	Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford	Co-directed with Richard Rosson
1934	Twentieth Century	Columbia	Comedy	John Barrymore, Carole Lombard		Producer
1935	Barbary Coast	Samuel Goldwyn Productions	Drama	Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins
1936	Ceiling Zero	Warner Bros. Cosmopolitan Pictures	Drama	James Cagney
1936	The Road to Glory	Fox	War	Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore		Writer
1936	Come and Get It	Howard Prod. Samuel Goldwyn Productions	Drama	Joel McCrea, Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan	Co-directed with William Wyler
1938	Bringing Up Baby	RKO	Comedy	Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn		Producer
1939	Only Angels Have Wings	Columbia	Adventure, Drama	Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth		Producer
1940	His Girl Friday	Columbia	Comedy	Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy		Producer
1941	Sergeant York	Warner Bros.	War	Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan		Producer
1941	Ball of Fire	Samuel Goldwyn Productions	Comedy	Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
1943	Air Force	Warner Bros.	War	John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy		Producer
1944	To Have and Have Not	Warner Bros.	Drama	Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall		Producer
1946	The Big Sleep	Warner Bros.	Crime	Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall		Producer
1948	Red River	Charles K. Feldman	Western	John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan	2nd unit director Arthur Rosson	Producer & Presenter
1948	A Song Is Born	Samuel Goldwyn Productions	Musical	Danny Kaye	First Technicolor film
1949	I Was a Male War Bride	Fox	Comedy	Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
1952	The Big Sky	Winchester Pictures	Western	Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin		Producer
1952	Monkey Business	Fox	Comedy	Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe
1952	"Ransom of Red Chief"	Fox	Comedy, Drama	David Wayne, Oscar Levant	from O. Henry's Full House
1953	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Fox	Musical	Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell	Technicolor film
1955	Land of the Pharaohs	Warner Bros. Continental Pictures	Drama	Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin	Technicolor film	Producer
1959	Rio Bravo	Armada Productions	Western	John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ricky Nelson	Technicolor film	Producer
1962	Hatari!	Malabar	Adventure	John Wayne	Technicolor film	Producer & Presenter
1964	Man's Favorite Sport?	Universal Gibraltar Prod. / Laurel Prod.	Comedy	Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Charlene Holt	Technicolor film	Producer
1965	Red Line 7000	Paramount / Laurel Prod.	Drama	James Caan, Charlene Holt	Technicolor film	Producer, Writer
1966	El Dorado	Paramount / Laurel Prod.	Western	John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt	Similar idea to Rio Bravo / Technicolor film	Producer & Presenter
1970	Rio Lobo	Batjac, Malabar Cinema Center Films	Western	John Wayne	Similar idea to Rio Bravo / Technicolor film / Final film Hawks directed	Producer

Films produced only[edit]

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

Documentary appearances[edit]

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[edit]

Year	Title	Studio	Genre	Cast	Notes
1932	La foule hurle	Warner Bros.	Drama	Jean Gabin	French-language version of The Crowd Roars directed by John Daumery, featuring footage from Hawks' film
1933	The Prizefighter and the Lady	MGM	Romance	Max Baer, Myrna Loy	resigned, replaced by W.S. Van Dyke
1934	Viva Villa!	MGM	Western	Wallace Beery	resigned, replaced by Jack Conway
1943	The Outlaw	Howard Hughes Productions	Western	Walter Huston, Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell	resigned, replaced by Howard Hughes

References[edit]

^ "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.

[hvm50-1] "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.

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