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
- Billy Rose's Jumbo ... (Theatre Play)
- Walk on the Wild Side ... (Writer)
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 Indian Fighter ... (Screenplay)
- The Man with the Golden Arm ... (Additional Writing)
1954
- Ulysses ... (Screenplay)
- Living It Up ... (Theatre Play)
1953
- Indiscretion of an American Wife ... (Writer)
- Angel Face ... (Screenplay)
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)
- Strangers on a Train ... (Additional Writing)
1950
- September Affair ... (Writer)
- Perfect Strangers ... (Theatre Play)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends ... (Screenplay)
- Whirlpool ... (Screenplay)
- The Murder Club ... (Writer)
- Miracle in the Rain ... (Author)
- Edge of Doom ... (Writer)
- The Pink Hussar ... (Director)
1949
- Roseanna McCoy ... (Writer)
- Big Jack ... (Writer)
- Love Happy ... (Additional Writing)
- The Inspector General ... (Additional Writing)
- The Twentieth Century ... (Writer)
- We Were Strangers ... (Additional Writing)
- 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)
- Ride the Pink Horse ... (Screenplay)
- Her Husband's Affairs ... (Writer)
1946
- Gilda ... (Additional Writing)
- Duel in the Sun ... (Writer)
- Notorious ... (Writer)
- Specter of the Rose ... (Director)
1945
- Cornered ... (Writer)
- Spellbound ... (Screenplay)
- Watchtower Over Tomorrow ... (Screenplay)
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
1944
- Lifeboat ... (Writer)
1942
- China Girl ... (Screenplay)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point ... (Writer)
- Tales of Manhattan ... (Writer)
- The Black Swan ... (Screenplay)
1941
- Second Chorus ... (Writer)
- Lydia ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Foreign Correspondent ... (Additional Writing)
- The Shop Around the Corner ... (Additional Writing)
- Angels Over Broadway as Man in Night Court (uncredited)
- I Take This Woman ... (Writer)
- His Girl Friday ... (Theatre Play)
- Comrade X ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Eternally Yours ... (Writer)
- Stagecoach ... (Additional Writing)
- It's a Wonderful World ... (Screenplay)
- Gunga Din ... (Story)
- Lady of the Tropics ... (Screenplay)
- Let Freedom Ring ... (Screenplay)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Screenplay)
- Some Like It Hot ... (Theatre Play)
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Writer)
- The Goldwyn Follies ... (Story)
1937
- Nothing Sacred ... (Screenplay)
- A Star Is Born ... (Writer)
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Writer)
- Woman Chases Man ... (Writer)
- The Hurricane ... (Additional Writing)
- King of Gamblers ... (Writer)
1936
- Soak the Rich ... (Director)
1935
- Spring Tonic ... (Theatre Play)
- Barbary Coast ... (Writer)
- The Scoundrel as Flop House Bum
- The Florentine Dagger ... (Writer)
- Once in a Blue Moon ... (Director)
1934
- Queen Christina ... (Additional Writing)
- Viva Villa! ... (Screenplay)
- Riptide ... (Writer)
- Upperworld ... (Story)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Crime Without Passion as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
- Shoot the Works ... (Theatre Play)
- Twentieth Century ... (Screenplay)
1933
- Topaze ... (Screenplay)
- Design for Living ... (Screenplay)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ... (Story)
- Turn Back the Clock ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Back Street ... (Writer)
- Rasputin and the Empress ... (Writer)
- The Beast of the City ... (Writer)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Writer)
- Scarface ... (Screenplay)
1931
- Quick Millions ... (Writer)
- Homicide Squad ... (Writer)
- The Front Page ... (Writer)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Writer)
- The Unholy Garden ... (Story)
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)