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
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Novel)
- Trapeze ... (Writer)
- The Iron Petticoat ... (Screenplay)
1955
- The Indian Fighter ... (Screenplay)
- The Man with the Golden Arm ... (Additional Writing)
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
- Strangers on a Train ... (Additional Writing)
- The Thing from Another World ... (Writer)
- The Secret of Convict Lake ... (Additional Writing)
1950
- Whirlpool ... (Screenplay)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends ... (Screenplay)
- Perfect Strangers ... (Theatre Play)
- Edge of Doom ... (Writer)
- The Pink Hussar ... (Director)
- September Affair ... (Writer)
- The Murder Club ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Author)
1949
- Love Happy ... (Additional Writing)
- Big Jack ... (Writer)
- We Were Strangers ... (Additional Writing)
- Roseanna McCoy ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Writer)
- The Twentieth Century ... (Writer)
- Concerning a Woman of Sin ... (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
- China Girl ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Swan ... (Screenplay)
- Tales of Manhattan ... (Writer)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point ... (Writer)
1941
- Lydia ... (Screenplay)
- Second Chorus ... (Writer)
1940
- The Shop Around the Corner ... (Additional Writing)
- His Girl Friday ... (Theatre Play)
- Foreign Correspondent ... (Additional Writing)
- Comrade X ... (Screenplay)
- I Take This Woman ... (Writer)
- Angels Over Broadway as Man in Night Court (uncredited)
1939
- Wuthering Heights ... (Screenplay)
- Stagecoach ... (Additional Writing)
- It's a Wonderful World ... (Screenplay)
- Gunga Din ... (Story)
- Some Like It Hot ... (Theatre Play)
- Lady of the Tropics ... (Screenplay)
- Eternally Yours ... (Writer)
- Let Freedom Ring ... (Screenplay)
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Writer)
- The Goldwyn Follies ... (Story)
1937
- A Star Is Born ... (Writer)
- The Hurricane ... (Additional Writing)
- Nothing Sacred ... (Screenplay)
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Writer)
- Woman Chases Man ... (Writer)
- King of Gamblers ... (Writer)
1936
- Soak the Rich ... (Director)
1935
- Barbary Coast ... (Writer)
- The Scoundrel as Flop House Bum
- The Florentine Dagger ... (Writer)
- Spring Tonic ... (Theatre Play)
- Once in a Blue Moon ... (Director)
1934
- Queen Christina ... (Additional Writing)
- Riptide ... (Writer)
- Twentieth Century ... (Screenplay)
- Shoot the Works ... (Theatre Play)
- Upperworld ... (Story)
- Viva Villa! ... (Screenplay)
- Crime Without Passion as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
1933
- Design for Living ... (Screenplay)
- Topaze ... (Screenplay)
- Turn Back the Clock ... (Screenplay)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ... (Story)
1932
- Scarface ... (Screenplay)
- Rasputin and the Empress ... (Writer)
- The Beast of the City ... (Writer)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Writer)
- Back Street ... (Writer)
1931
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Writer)
- The Unholy Garden ... (Story)
- Quick Millions ... (Writer)
- Homicide Squad ... (Writer)
1930
- The Green Specter ... (Story)
- Street of Chance ... (Writer)
- Roadhouse Nights ... (Story)
- Si l'empereur savait ça ... (Original Story)
1929
- The Unholy Night ... (Story)
- The Great Gabbo ... (Story)
1928
- The Big Noise ... (Story)
1927
- Underworld ... (Story)
1926
- The New Klondike ... (Writer)