Howard Higgin

Born: 1891-02-15 in Denver, Colorado, USA

Died: 1938-12-16

Known For: Directing

Biography

From Wikipedia Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s. Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for legendary Wallace Reid, Rent Free. His later films include High Voltage and Skyscraper, and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable (as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the unshaven villain in The Painted Desert), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis (in Hell's House), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others. Higgins' movie career spanned 38 years, having begun working on film crews in 1919. He died in Los Angeles at age 47.

Filmography

1978

Western von gestern ... (Director)

1940

Cafe Hostess ... (Writer)

1933

Carnival Lady ... (Director)
Reckless Decision ... (Screenplay)

1932

The Last Man ... (Director)
The Final Edition ... (Director)
Hell's House ... (Director)

1931

The Painted Desert ... (Director)

1930

Her Man ... (Screenstory)

1929

The Racketeer ... (Director)
High Voltage ... (Director)
The Leatherneck ... (Director)

1928

Power ... (Director)
Sal of Singapore ... (Director)
Skyscraper ... (Director)

1927

The Perfect Sap ... (Director)

1926

The Reckless Lady ... (Director)
The Great Deception ... (Director)

1925

In the Name of Love ... (Director)
Tomorrow's Love ... (Screenplay)
The Trouble With Wives ... (Story)
Smouldering Fires ... (Screenplay)
The New Commandment ... (Writer)

1924

Don't Doubt Your Husband ... (Screenplay)
Broken Barriers ... (Scenario Writer)
Changing Husbands ... (Writer)

1923

The Famous Mrs. Fair ... (Art Direction)
Fashion Row ... (Writer)

1922

Rent Free ... (Director)

1920

Why Change Your Wife? ... (Production Manager)