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)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Novel)
- The Iron Petticoat ... (Screenplay)
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
- Strangers on a Train ... (Additional Writing)
- The Thing from Another World ... (Writer)
- The Secret of Convict Lake ... (Additional Writing)
1950
- Where the Sidewalk Ends ... (Screenplay)
- Whirlpool ... (Screenplay)
- September Affair ... (Writer)
- Perfect Strangers ... (Theatre Play)
- Edge of Doom ... (Writer)
- The Pink Hussar ... (Director)
- The Murder Club ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Author)
1949
- The Inspector General ... (Additional Writing)
- We Were Strangers ... (Additional Writing)
- Roseanna McCoy ... (Writer)
- Love Happy ... (Additional Writing)
- The Twentieth Century ... (Writer)
- Big Jack ... (Writer)
- Concerning a Woman of Sin ... (Director)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Director)
1948
- Rope ... (Additional Writing)
- Portrait of Jennie ... (Writer)
- The Miracle of the Bells ... (Screenplay)
- The Front Page ... (Director)
1947
- Kiss of Death ... (Screenplay)
- Ride the Pink Horse ... (Screenplay)
- Her Husband's Affairs ... (Writer)
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)
- Tales of Manhattan ... (Writer)
- China Girl ... (Producer)
- 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)
- I Take This Woman ... (Writer)
- Comrade X ... (Screenplay)
- Angels Over Broadway as Man in Night Court (uncredited)
1939
- Stagecoach ... (Additional Writing)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Screenplay)
- Gunga Din ... (Story)
- It's a Wonderful World ... (Screenplay)
- Let Freedom Ring ... (Screenplay)
- Eternally Yours ... (Writer)
- Some Like It Hot ... (Theatre Play)
- Lady of the Tropics ... (Screenplay)
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Writer)
- The Goldwyn Follies ... (Screenplay)
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 ... (Producer)
1935
- Barbary Coast ... (Writer)
- The Florentine Dagger ... (Writer)
- Spring Tonic ... (Theatre Play)
- The Scoundrel as Flop House Bum
- Once in a Blue Moon ... (Writer)
1934
- Twentieth Century ... (Screenplay)
- Queen Christina ... (Additional Writing)
- Upperworld ... (Story)
- Riptide ... (Writer)
- Crime Without Passion as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Viva Villa! ... (Screenplay)
- Shoot the Works ... (Theatre Play)
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)
- Back Street ... (Writer)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Writer)
1931
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Writer)
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- The Unholy Garden ... (Story)
- Quick Millions ... (Writer)
- Homicide Squad ... (Writer)
1930
- Roadhouse Nights ... (Story)
- Street of Chance ... (Writer)
- Si l'empereur savait ça ... (Original Story)
- The Green Specter ... (Story)
1929
- The Great Gabbo ... (Story)
- The Unholy Night ... (Story)
1928
- The Big Noise ... (Story)
1927
- Underworld ... (Story)
1926
- The New Klondike ... (Writer)