FILM DIRECTOR

Howard Hawks

1896 - 1977

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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." 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." He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York (1941) and earned the Honorary Academy Award in 1974. A versatile 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Hawks is the 87th most popular film director (up from 121st in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from United States (up from 825th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Film Director.

Howard Hawks is most famous for being a director of many classic films in Hollywood. He is known for directing "Scarface" (1932), "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Rio Bravo" (1959), and "Red River" (1948).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Howard Hawks ranks 87 out of 2,041. Before him are Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are James Ivory, Terry Gilliam, Manoel de Oliveira, Carl Theodor Dreyer, John Carpenter, and Wolfgang Petersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Howard Hawks ranks 25. Before him are Paula Hitler, Milena Jesenská, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, and Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. After him are A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, Leslie Groves, Donald Winnicott, Buenaventura Durruti, and Anna Anderson. Among people deceased in 1977, Howard Hawks ranks 24. Before him are Ernst Bloch, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Kurt Schuschnigg, Alexey Stakhanov, Anaïs Nin, and Archibald Hill. After him are Joan Crawford, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Clarice Lispector, Bing Crosby, Andreas Baader, and James Jones.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Hawks ranks 783 out of 20,380. Before him are Carrie Fisher (1956), Barbara Liskov (1939), Michael DeBakey (1908), Albert Ellis (1913), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), and Rod Steiger (1925). After him are James Ivory (1928), Keith Jarrett (1945), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edgar Cayce (1877), and Edward Mills Purcell (1912).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Howard Hawks ranks 21. Before him are Oliver Stone (1946), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Brian De Palma (1940), Sydney Pollack (1934), Chuck Jones (1912), and John Waters (1946). After him are James Ivory (1928), Terry Gilliam (1940), John Carpenter (1948), Sidney Lumet (1924), John Huston (1906), and Edwin S. Porter (1870).

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