Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks was born in 1896 in Goshen, Indiana, into a wealthy family of industrialists. A graduate in mechanical engineering from Cornell, he served from 1917 to 1919 in the army air service as an instructor, raced cars and flew aeroplanes, then entered the cinema through the props department. He made about forty films between 1926 and 1970: crime films, westerns, comedies, war films and science fiction. He received an Honorary Oscar in 1975 and died in Palm Springs, California, in 1977.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaBringing Up BabyHoward Hawks · 1938Cinema
• CinemaRio BravoHoward Hawks · 1959Cinema