Howard Hawks was a film director who made 46 films (two of which uncredited) between 1926 and 1970. He is responsible for classic films in genres ranging from film noir, screwball comedy, crime, science fiction and Western.
| 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 | |||
| 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, Philip Holmes | Producer | ||
| 1932 | Scarface | Caddo Company | Crime | Paul Muni | Producer, Writer | ||
| 1932 | The Crowd Roars | Warner Bros. | Drama | James Cagney | Writer | ||
| 1932 | La Foule Hurle | Warner Bros. | Drama | Jean Gabin | Co-directed with John Daumery French version of The Crowd Roars |
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| 1932 | Tiger Shark | First National | Romance | Edward G. Robinson | Writer | ||
| 1933 | Today We Live | MGM | Romance | Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford | Co-directed with Richard Rosson | ||
| 1933 | The Prizefighter and the Lady | MGM | Romance | Max Baer, Myrna Loy | Co-directed with W.S. Van Dyke | ||
| 1934 | Viva Villa! | MGM | Western | Wallace Beery | Resigned during filming | Writer | |
| 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 | |||
| 1938 | Bringing Up Baby | RKO | Comedy | Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn | Producer | ||
| 1939 | Only Angels Have Wings | Columbia | Drama | Cary Grant, Jean Arthur | Producer | ||
| 1940 | His Girl Friday | Columbia | Comedy | Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell | Producer | ||
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Warner Bros. | War | Gary Cooper | 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 | ||
| 1943 | The Outlaw | Howard Hughes | Western | Walter Huston, Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell | Resigned after 2 weeks | Writer | |
| 1943 | Corvette K-225 | Universal Pictures | War | Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald, Andy Devine, Fuzzy Knight, Noah Beery, Jr. | credited to Richard Rosson | 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 | Co-directed with Arthur Rosson | Producer | |
| 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 | |||
| 1951 | The Thing from Another World | Winchester Pictures | Science fiction | Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite | credited to Christian Nyby | Producer, Writer | |
| 1952 | The Big Sky | Winchester Pictures | Western | Kirk Douglas | Producer | ||
| 1952 | O. Henry's Full House | Fox | Drama | Directed the "Ransom of Red Chief" segment | |||
| 1952 | Monkey Business | Fox | Comedy | Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers | |||
| 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 | Technicolor film | Producer | |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo | Armada Productions | Western | John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson | Technicolor film | Producer | |
| 1962 | Hatari! | Malabar | Adventure | John Wayne | Technicolor film | Producer | |
| 1964 | Man's Favorite Sport? | Universal Gibraltar Prod. / Laurel Prod. |
Comedy | Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss | Technicolor film | Producer | |
| 1965 | Red Line 7000 | Paramount / Laurel Prod. | Drama | James Caan | Technicolor film | Producer, Writer | |
| 1966 | El Dorado | Paramount / Laurel Prod. | Western | John Wayne, Robert Mitchum | Remake of Rio Bravo / Technicolor film | Producer | |
| 1970 | Rio Lobo | Batjac, Malabar Cinema Center Films |
Western | John Wayne | Similar idea of Rio Bravo / Technicolor film | Producer | |
Famous quotes containing the words howard and/or hawks:
“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Oh, Jacques, we’re used to each other, we’re a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we’ve grown used to each other. That’s what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)