Nickname:	/ The Silver Fox
Known for:	His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo
Birth name:	Howard Winchester Hawks
Birthday:	30 May 1896, Goshen, Indiana, USA
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

Brother of Kenneth Hawks. Ashes scattered in the desert near Calimesa, California. Second cousin of actress Carole Lombard. Brother-in-law of Mary Astor. Cousin-in-law of William Powell, brother-in-law of Douglas Shearer and Norma Shearer, son-in-law of Edith Shearer. Brother-in-law of producer Ned Tanen. Brother-in-law of Eden Hartford. Cousin-in-law of Clark Gable. To build their New England-style home, Hawks' wife Slim used the set plans from his film Bringing Up Baby. Brother of William B. Hawks, brother-in-law of Bessie Love. Hawks' wife saw Lauren Bacall on the cover of a magazine and persuaded him to put her in the movies. Bacall was only 20 when she made her screen debut in To Have and Have Not. Hawks' friend John Ford called him "The Grey Fox" of Hollywood for his womanizing ways (regardless of whether he was married or not at the time). He was an infamous teller of tall tales, usually ones where he exagggerated his already considerable involvement in the making of his films and ones where he sounded like a tough guy (punching producers, etc.) Quentin Tarantino said that Hawks' Rio Bravo may be his favorite movie of all time. Was voted the 4th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. (April, 1996) Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 446-451. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Frequently worked with William Faulkner. Faulkner wrote or co-wrote many of Hawks' films. Worked in a plethora of genres over the course of his career, including westerns, screwball comedies, film noirs, action/adventures, period epics, war dramas, racing films, science-fiction, and gangster pictures. His son, Peter John Ward Hawks, was born to wife Athole on July 31, 1924 and adopted by Howard in 1928. Son David Winchester Hawks was born October 9, 1929. Daughter Barbara born May 20, 1936. Daughter Kitty Stephen Hawks born February 11, 1946. Son Gregg born October 22, 1954. Many of aspects of Lauren Bacall's screen persona in her film debut To Have and Have Not were based on Hawks' wife at that time, Slim, including her glamorous dresses, long blonde hair, smoky voice and demure, mysterious demeanor. He never got over the plane crash death of his brother Kenneth Hawks, of whom he later said probably had the potential to be an even greater filmmaker than himself. Notheless, he continued to fly after his brother's death and went on to shoot many films about pilots. Directed 5 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper, Margaret Wycherly, Barbara Stanwyck and Arthur Hunnicutt. Cooper and Brennan won Oscars for their performances in one of Hawks' movies. Brian De Palma dedicated Scarface, his remake of the 1932 film, to Hawks. Is portrayed by Ivan Bonar in Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess Is portrayed by James Cahill in Will There Really Be a Morning? Attended Throop Polytechnic Institute (which later become the California Institute of Techonology) and the Phillips Academy (a prep school). Later studies engineering at Cornell University. His biographer, Todd McCarthy, wrote that his educational experiences were a very important factor in the formation of his studied character, which he brought to his films, as well as every other endeavor in his life. One of his distant cousins, Elizabeth Ellen Robinson, was the mother of Mary Gish and grandmother of Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. He was presented with an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement by his friend John Wayne at the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony. Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh". NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 Has directed 5 actors to Oscar nominations: Walter Brennan, Margaret Wycherly, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Brennan and Cooper won for their performances in a Hawks production. Is portrayed by Ross Elliott in Bogie, by Howard Platt in Norma Jean & Marilyn and by Adam Roarke in Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

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