William K. Howard

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-06-16 (55 years old)

Deathday

1954-02-21

Place of Birth

St. Marys, Ohio, USA

William K. Howard

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...

Acting

1939

Back Door to Heaven

as Prosecutor (uncredited)

Production

1937

1939

1935

Rendezvous

as Director

1934

Evelyn Prentice

as Director

1931

Transatlantic

as Director

1928

A Ship Comes In

as Director

1934

1935

1929

The Valiant

as Director

1941

1937

The Squeaker

as Director

1943

1932

Sherlock Holmes

as Director

1940

1942

Klondike Fury

as Director

1922

1927

White Gold

as Director

1946

1930

Scotland Yard

as Director

1934

1930

Good Intentions

as Director

1931

1926

Gigolo

as Director

1927

The Main Event

as Director

1929

1922

1925

1922

The Crusader

as Writer

1931

Surrender

as Director

1924

1921

1921

Get Your Man

as Director

1922

Trooper O'Neill

as Scenario Writer

1937

1929

The Valiant

as Producer

1932

The First Year

as Director

1929

Christina

as Director

1923

Let's Go

as Director

1926

Red Dice

as Director

1935

Rendezvous

as Producer

1925

Code of the West

as Director

1926

Bachelor Brides

as Director

1923

Danger Ahead

as Director

1928

The River Pirate

as Director

1926

Volcano

as Director

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