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Also Known As Howard Winchester Hawks
Born May 30, 1896 • Goshen • Indiana
Died December 26, 1977 (aged 81) • Palm Springs • California
Notable Works “Bringing Up Baby” • “His Girl Friday” • “Red River” • “Rio Bravo” • “Rio Lobo” • “Scarface: The Shame of a Nation” • “Sergeant York” • “The Big Sleep” • “To Have and Have Not”

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Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo.
Howard Hawks: Scarface
Carole Lombard extends her leg to kick John Barrymore in a dramatic scene from the 1934 screwball comedy Twentieth Century, directed by Howard Hawks.
Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley sits on stairs in a woman's dressing gown with his face in his hands, while Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance and May Robson as Aunt Elizabeth stand nearby; a dog is in the foreground.
Cary Grant, Billy Gilbert, Rosalind Russell, and Clarence Kolb in a scene from His Girl Friday, with the characters in suits and hats in a tense conversation.
Gary Cooper in Sergeant York
Lauren Bacall, Marcel Dalio, and Humphrey Bogart stand in a tiled hallway, with Bacall leaning by a door, Dalio gesturing, and Bogart in a cap standing in shadow.
John Wayne as Tom Dunson and Montgomery Clift as Matt Garth stand facing each other in cowboy attire, surrounded by men and a covered wagon, in a scene from Red River.
John Wayne in Rio Bravo
Scene from The Big Sleep
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