As Director
Johnny Come Lately
1943
6.7
William K. Howard
Directing
Birth date
June 16, 1899
Birth place
St. Marys, Ohio, USA
Death date
February 21, 1954
Biography
William K. Howard (June 16, 1899 in St. Marys, Ohio - February 21, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) was a film director, writer and producer. Howard began his work in Hollywood as an assistant director on the 1920 release The Adorable Savage. The following year, he received his first directing credits, for Get Your Man, Play Square and What Love Will Do. He wrote The One-Man Trail that same year. Some of his better known works as a director are The Thundering Herd, Surrender, Transatlantic, Sherlock Holmes, This Side of Heaven, Fire Over England, When the Lights Go on Again and A Guy Could Change. His film The Power and the Glory, directed by Howard from a screenplay by Preston Sturges, was neglected for decades but in recent years has received significant reappraisal due to recognition that this movie was a major influence on the structure of Citizen Kane. Howard has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article William K. Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Klondike Fury
1942
4.2
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Bullets for O'Hara
1941
4.0
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Back Door to Heaven
1939
3.7
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The Squeaker
1937
5.2
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Fire Over England
1937
6.2
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
6.0
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The Cat and the Fiddle
1934
6.9
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This Side of Heaven
1934
7.0
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The Power and the Glory
1933
6.0
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Sherlock Holmes
1932
5.1
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Surrender
1931
5.0
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Scotland Yard
1930
5.0
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The Valiant
1929
6.0
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A Ship Comes In
1928
5.5
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White Gold
1927
5.9
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Let's Go
1923
7.0
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Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
5.8