Name Howard Higgin | Role Writer | |
Died December 16, 1938, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies Hell's House, The Painted Desert, High Voltage, The Racketeer, Power Similar People Junior Durkin, William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, Owen Moore |
Clark gable in the painted desert 1931 howard higgin
Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
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- Clark gable in the painted desert 1931 howard higgin
- Hells House 1932 BETTE DAVIS
- Selected filmography
- References
Higgin was production manager on Cecil De Mille's Forbidden Fruit(1921).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 begun working on film crews in 1919. He died in Los Angeles at age 47.