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
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ... (Additional Writing)
- Circus World ... (Screenplay)
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
- The Thing from Another World ... (Writer)
- The Secret of Convict Lake ... (Additional Writing)
1950
- Where the Sidewalk Ends ... (Screenplay)
- Whirlpool ... (Screenplay)
- September Affair ... (Writer)
- Edge of Doom ... (Writer)
- Perfect Strangers ... (Theatre Play)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Author)
- The Murder Club ... (Writer)
- The Pink Hussar ... (Director)
1949
- Love Happy ... (Additional Writing)
- We Were Strangers ... (Additional Writing)
- Big Jack ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Writer)
- Roseanna McCoy ... (Writer)
- Concerning a Woman of Sin ... (Writer)
- The Twentieth Century ... (Writer)
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)
- Watchtower Over Tomorrow ... (Screenplay)
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
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
- 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
- Gone with the Wind ... (Screenplay)
- Stagecoach ... (Additional Writing)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Screenplay)
- Gunga Din ... (Story)
- It's a Wonderful World ... (Screenplay)
- 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 Prisoner of Zenda ... (Writer)
- Nothing Sacred ... (Screenplay)
- The Hurricane ... (Additional Writing)
- King of Gamblers ... (Writer)
- Woman Chases Man ... (Writer)
1936
- Soak the Rich ... (Director)
1935
- Barbary Coast ... (Writer)
- The Florentine Dagger ... (Writer)
- Once in a Blue Moon ... (Director)
- The Scoundrel as Flop House Bum
- Spring Tonic ... (Theatre Play)
1934
- Queen Christina ... (Additional Writing)
- Viva Villa! ... (Screenplay)
- Twentieth Century ... (Screenplay)
- Riptide ... (Writer)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Crime Without Passion as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
- Upperworld ... (Story)
- Shoot the Works ... (Theatre Play)
1933
- Design for Living ... (Screenplay)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ... (Story)
- Turn Back the Clock ... (Screenplay)
- Topaze ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Scarface ... (Screenplay)
- The Beast of the City ... (Writer)
- Rasputin and the Empress ... (Writer)
- Back Street ... (Writer)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Writer)
1931
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Writer)
- The Unholy Garden ... (Story)
- Quick Millions ... (Writer)
- Homicide Squad ... (Writer)
1930
- Si l'empereur savait ça ... (Original Story)
- The Green Specter ... (Story)
- Roadhouse Nights ... (Story)
- Street of Chance ... (Writer)
1929
- The Unholy Night ... (Story)
- The Great Gabbo ... (Story)
1928
- The Big Noise ... (Story)
1927
- Underworld ... (Story)
1926
- The New Klondike ... (Writer)