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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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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.

Hell's House (1932) BETTE DAVIS


Selected filmography

  • Rent Free (1922)
  • The New Commandment (1925)
  • In the Name of Love (1925)
  • The Great Deception (1926)
  • Skyscraper (1928)
  • Sal of Singapore (1928)
  • Power (1928)
  • The Leatherneck (1929)
  • High Voltage (1929)
  • The Racketeer (1929)
  • Her Man (1930)
  • The Painted Desert (1931)
  • Hell's House (1932)
  • Raw Timber (1937)
  • Cafe Hostess (1939)
  • References

    Howard Higgin Wikipedia


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