biography
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Hawks, Howard (Winchester)
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| lived:
| (1896–1977)
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| biography:
| Film director, screenwriter, and producer, born in Goshen, Indiana, USA. A plane and car racer in his teens, he worked as a prop boy in Hollywood during college vacations. He served with the Army Air Corps in World War 1 and, returning to California to work in an aircraft factory, he soon decided to try the new film industry, where he held a variety of jobs in the production field before moving on to writing and producing films. His directorial debut was with his own script, The Road to Glory (1926), which launched a career that spanned 45 years and a broad spectrum of genres, from gangster films (Scarface, 1932) and Westerns (Red River, 1948) to screwball comedies (Bringing Up Baby, 1938) and musicals (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953). Not much of an innovator but in total control of his films, he was a no-nonsense teller of strong stories, and he came to be highly regarded by French students of film and was awarded an honorary Oscar (1974). |
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