Add/Update Information: Howard Hawks - Director

American film director, screenwriter and producer, born on May 30, 1896, in Goshen, Indiana, to a wealthy family. He attended Cornell University Technical College, worked as a race car driver and pilot before moving to the cinema in 1917 to work as a screenwriter. He produced and wrote the screenplay for the movie Quicksands (1923), and directed his first movie, The Road to Glory (1926). He gained great fame after his movie A Girl in Every Port (1928). Among different artistic genres, his films bear a distinct creative uniqueness and high talent. Among his most notable works are: Ball of Fire (1941), Scarface (1932), and Come and Get It (1936). He could not adapt to the new situation that arose in American cinema in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. As it began to generate new themes, ideas, stories, methods, and different views of what cinema is, so he stopped working. He won an Academy Award in 1974. He died at his home in Palm Springs, California, December 26, 1977 at the age of 81.