Ben Hecht
Born: 1894-02-28 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1964-04-18
Known For: Writing
Biography
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1995
- Kiss of Death ... (Original Film Writer)
1988
- Switching Channels ... (Writer)
1986
- I Hate Actors ... (Novel)
1983
- Scarface ... (Original Film Writer)
1974
- The Front Page ... (Theatre Play)
1969
- Gaily, Gaily ... (Novel)
1964
- Circus World ... (Screenplay)
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ... (Additional Writing)
1962
- Walk on the Wild Side ... (Writer)
- Billy Rose's Jumbo ... (Theatre Play)
1960
- North to Alaska ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Queen of Outer Space ... (Story)
- The Fiend Who Walked the West ... (Adaptation)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- A Farewell to Arms ... (Screenplay)
- Legend of the Lost ... (Screenplay)
1956
- Trapeze ... (Writer)
- The Iron Petticoat ... (Screenplay)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Novel)
1955
- The Man with the Golden Arm ... (Additional Writing)
- The Indian Fighter ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Ulysses ... (Screenplay)
- Living It Up ... (Theatre Play)
1953
- Angel Face ... (Screenplay)
- Indiscretion of an American Wife ... (Writer)
1952
- Monkey Business ... (Screenplay)
- Actors and Sin as Narrator (segment "Woman of Sin") (voice)
1951
- The Thing from Another World ... (Writer)
- The Secret of Convict Lake ... (Additional Writing)
1950
- Where the Sidewalk Ends ... (Screenplay)
- Whirlpool ... (Screenplay)
- Edge of Doom ... (Writer)
- September Affair ... (Writer)
- Perfect Strangers ... (Theatre Play)
- The Murder Club ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Author)
- The Pink Hussar ... (Director)
1949
- Love Happy ... (Additional Writing)
- We Were Strangers ... (Additional Writing)
- Big Jack ... (Writer)
- Roseanna McCoy ... (Writer)
- The Twentieth Century ... (Writer)
- Concerning a Woman of Sin ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Writer)
1948
- Rope ... (Additional Writing)
- Portrait of Jennie ... (Writer)
- The Miracle of the Bells ... (Screenplay)
- The Front Page ... (Director)
1947
- Kiss of Death ... (Screenplay)
- Her Husband's Affairs ... (Writer)
- Ride the Pink Horse ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Notorious ... (Writer)
- Gilda ... (Additional Writing)
- Duel in the Sun ... (Writer)
- Specter of the Rose ... (Director)
1945
- Spellbound ... (Screenplay)
- Cornered ... (Writer)
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- Watchtower Over Tomorrow ... (Screenplay)
1944
- Lifeboat ... (Writer)
1942
- The Black Swan ... (Screenplay)
- China Girl ... (Screenplay)
- Tales of Manhattan ... (Writer)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point ... (Writer)
1941
- Second Chorus ... (Writer)
- Lydia ... (Screenplay)
1940
- His Girl Friday ... (Theatre Play)
- Foreign Correspondent ... (Additional Writing)
- The Shop Around the Corner ... (Additional Writing)
- Comrade X ... (Screenplay)
- Angels Over Broadway as Man in Night Court (uncredited)
- I Take This Woman ... (Writer)
1939
- Stagecoach ... (Additional Writing)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Screenplay)
- It's a Wonderful World ... (Screenplay)
- Gunga Din ... (Story)
- Lady of the Tropics ... (Screenplay)
- Some Like It Hot ... (Theatre Play)
- Eternally Yours ... (Writer)
- Let Freedom Ring ... (Screenplay)
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Writer)
- The Goldwyn Follies ... (Story)
1937
- A Star Is Born ... (Writer)
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Writer)
- Nothing Sacred ... (Screenplay)
- The Hurricane ... (Additional Writing)
- Woman Chases Man ... (Writer)
- King of Gamblers ... (Writer)
1936
- Soak the Rich ... (Director)
1935
- Barbary Coast ... (Writer)
- The Florentine Dagger ... (Writer)
- The Scoundrel as Flop House Bum
- Spring Tonic ... (Theatre Play)
- Once in a Blue Moon ... (Director)
1934
- Queen Christina ... (Additional Writing)
- Riptide ... (Writer)
- Twentieth Century ... (Screenplay)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Upperworld ... (Story)
- Viva Villa! ... (Screenplay)
- Shoot the Works ... (Theatre Play)
- Crime Without Passion as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
1933
- Design for Living ... (Screenplay)
- Topaze ... (Screenplay)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ... (Story)
- Turn Back the Clock ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Scarface ... (Screenplay)
- Rasputin and the Empress ... (Writer)
- The Beast of the City ... (Writer)
- Back Street ... (Writer)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Writer)
1931
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Writer)
- Quick Millions ... (Writer)
- The Unholy Garden ... (Story)
- Homicide Squad ... (Writer)
1930
- Street of Chance ... (Writer)
- The Green Specter ... (Story)
- Roadhouse Nights ... (Story)
- Si l'empereur savait ça ... (Original Story)
1929
- The Great Gabbo ... (Story)
- The Unholy Night ... (Story)
1928
- The Big Noise ... (Story)
1927
- Underworld ... (Story)
1926
- The New Klondike ... (Writer)