Howard Higgin

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-02-15 (47 years old)

Deathday

1938-12-16

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

Howard Higgin

Biography

From Wikipedia Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s. Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for legendary Wallace Reid, Rent Free. His later films include High Voltage and Skyscraper, and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable (as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the unshaven villain in The Painted Desert), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis (in Hell's House), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others. Higgins' movie career spanned 38 years, having begu...

Production

1936

The Invisible Ray

as Original Story

1924

1929

The Racketeer

as Director

1929

High Voltage

as Director

1932

1932

Hell's House

as Director

1928

Sal of Singapore

as Director

1930

Her Man

as Screenstory

1925

Smouldering Fires

as Screenplay

1933

Carnival Lady

as Director

1937

Battle of Greed

as Director

1925

1925

1925

1933

1933

Reckless Decision

as Screenplay

1922

Rent Free

as Director

1925

1924

Broken Barriers

as Scenario Writer

1920

Why Change Your Wife?

as Production Manager

1932

Hell's House

as Story

1937

1940

Cafe Hostess

as Writer

1931

1931

1928

Skyscraper

as Director

1926

1929

The Leatherneck

as Director

1928

Power

as Director

1926

1923

The Famous Mrs. Fair

as Art Direction

1924

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