Howard Higgin

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Howard Higgin (born February 15, 1891 in Denver , Colorado , † December 16, 1938 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film director and screenwriter .

life and career

From 1919 to 1921 Howard Higgin was employed as a production assistant on several films by director Cecil B. DeMille , including for example Conditions like in Paradise (1919) and the wrong ways of a marriage (1920) with Gloria Swanson . After that, Higgin turned to directing himself. His first film was the 1922 comedy Rent Free with Wallace Reid . In the mid-1920s, he worked again with DeMille when he directed several productions for their short-lived film studio PDC Film Corporation . In total, Higgin directed 21 films by 1937, many of which he was also the screenwriter. Higgin also wrote the script or provided the story for films that he did not direct: Examples include Clarence Brown's melodrama Smouldering Fires (1925) or the horror film Tödliche Strahl (1936) with Boris Karloff .

Higgin's directing career peaked in the late 1920s, when several of his films, such as Skyscraper and The Leatherneck , were nominated for Oscars . During this time he also helped up the careers of several later stars: Carole Lombard made a few career-promoting appearances under his direction and Clark Gable got his first major film role in Higgins' film The Painted Desert in 1931 . In the years before his death, however, he had to be content with directing quickly produced B-movies or writing scripts. He died in Los Angeles in 1938 at the age of only 47.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1922: Rent Free
  • 1925: Smouldering Fires (screenplay only)
  • 1928: Power
  • 1928: skyscrapers (skyscraper)
  • 1929: Sal of Singapore (also screenplay)
  • 1929: High Voltage
  • 1929: The Leatherneck
  • 1929: The Racketeer
  • 1931: Enmity ( The Painted Desert ; also screenplay)
  • 1932: Hell's House
  • 1932: The Final Edition
  • 1934: The Line-Up
  • 1936: Deadly Rays ( The Invisible Ray ; story template only)
  • 1937: Battle of Greed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Howard Higgin | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chrystopher J. Spicer: Clark Gable, in Pictures: Candid Images of the Actor's Life . McFarland, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-8714-1 ( google.de [accessed November 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Higgin, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1938
Place of death Los Angeles , California