Howard Hawks - biography

“A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”

“I’m a storyteller - that’s the chief function of a director.  And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!”

“There’s action only if there is danger.”

Howard Hawks directed the following films:
The Road to Glory (1926)
Fig Leaves (1926)
The Cradle Snatchers (1927)
Paid to Love (1927)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Fazil (1928)
The Air Circus (1928)
Trent’s Last Case (1929)
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
The Criminal Code (1931)
Scarface (1932)
The Crowd Roars (1932)
Tiger Shark (1932)
La Foule hurle (1932)
Today We Live (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Viva Villa! (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Barbary Coast (1935)
Ceiling Zero (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Sergeant York (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Air Force (1943)
The Outlaw (1943)
Corvette K-225 (1943)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Red River (1948)
A Song Is Born (1948)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Big Sky (1952)
O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
Monkey Business (1952)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Hatari! (1962)
Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)
Red Line 7000 (1965)
El Dorado (1966)
Rio Lobo (1970)

Howard Hawks contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Road to Yesterday (1925)
Test Pilot (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
The French Connection (1971)
Scarface (1983)