Howard Hawks
Gender: Male
Born: 30th May 1896
Died: 26th December 1977
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Girl in Every Port, A Song Is Born, Air Force, Ball of Fire, Barbary Coast, Bringing up Baby, Cary Grant: A Gentleman's Gentleman, Ceiling Zero, Come and Get It, Cradle Snatchers, El Dorado, Fig Leaves, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hatari!, His Girl Friday, I Was a Male War Bride, Land of the Pharaohs, Man's Favorite Sport?, Monkey Business, O. Henry's Full House, Only Angels Have Wings, Paid to Love, Red Line 7000, Red River, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Air Circus, The Big Sky, The Big Sleep, The Criminal Code, The Crowd Roars, The Dawn Patrol, The Outlaw, The Prizefighter and the Lady, The Road to Glory, The Thing, Tiger Shark, To Have and Have Not, Today We Live, Trent's Last Case, Twentieth Century, Viva Villa!
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896–December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), 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).
In 1975, Hawks was awarded the Honorary Academy Award as "a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema," and in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.
Howard Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana on May 30, 1896. Hawks was the first-born child of Frank W. Hawks (1865–1950), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and the former Helen Howard (1872–1952), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The family eventually settled in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the wealthiest families in the
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