William K. Howard

Biography

William K. Howard (June 16, 1899 in St. Marys, Ohio - February 21, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) was a film director, writer and producer. Howard began his work in Hollywood as an assistant director on the 1920 release The Adorable Savage. The following year, he received his first directing credits, for Get Your Man, Play Square and What Love Will Do. He wrote The One-Man Trail that same year. Some of his better known works as a director are The Thundering Herd, Surrender, Transatlantic, Sherlock Holmes, This Side of Heaven, Fire Over England, When the Lights Go on Again and A Guy Could Change. His film The Power and the Glory, directed by Howard from a screenplay by Preston Sturges, was neglected for decades but in recent years has received significant reappraisal due to recognition that this movie was a major influence on the structure of Citizen Kane. Howard has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article William K. Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. Fire Over England (1937) — Director
2. Evelyn Prentice (1934) — Director
3. Johnny Come Lately (1943) — Director
4. The Princess Comes Across (1936) — Director
5. The Power and the Glory (1933) — Director
6. The Valiant (1929) — Director
7. Transatlantic (1931) — Director
8. Rendezvous (1935) — Director
9. A Ship Comes In (1928) — Director
10. White Gold (1927) — Director
11. Sherlock Holmes (1932) — Director
12. Klondike Fury (1942) — Director
13. The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) — Director
14. Don't Bet on Women (1931) — Director
15. The Squeaker (1937) — Director
16. This Side of Heaven (1934) — Director
17. Bullets for O'Hara (1941) — Director
18. Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) — Director
19. Money and the Woman (1940) — Director
20. Back Door to Heaven (1939) — Director
21. Surrender (1931) — Director
22. Let's Go (1923) — Director
23. When the Lights Go On Again (1944) — Director
24. Captain Fly-by-Night (1922) — Director
25. Scotland Yard (1930) — Director
26. Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) — Director
27. Deserted at the Altar (1922) — Director
28. A Guy Could Change (1946) — Director
29. Good Intentions (1930) — Director
30. The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) — Director
31. Gigolo (1926) — Director
32. The Main Event (1927) — Director
33. Love, Live & Laugh (1929) — Director
34. The Light of Western Stars (1925) — Director
35. The Thundering Herd (1925) — Director
36. The Border Legion (1924) — Director
37. Get Your Man (1921) — Director
38. The First Year (1932) — Director
39. Christina (1929) — Director
40. Red Dice (1926) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Back Door to Heaven (1939) — Prosecutor (uncredited)