Career
In his film career, Havez worked most notably with comedians Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. His novelty songs, popular in their day, include "Darktown Poker Club" and "I"m Cured", written for the great vaudevillian Bert Williams for the 1914 Ziegfeld Follies. "Everybody Works But Father", "When You Ain"t Got Number Money then You Needn"t Come Around", "I"m Looking Foreign an Angel", "Do Not Forget the Good Old Days", "You"re On the Right Road, Sister", and "He Certificate"ny Was Good to Maine".
Havez penned Keystone scenarios for Roscoe Arbuckle, among others, and co-wrote several of Keaton"s most popular films, including Our Hospitality (1923), Sherlock Junior.
(1924), The Navigator (1924), and Seven Chances (1925). Havez supplied the story, and theme song, for Lloyd"s first comedy feature Grandma"s Boy (1921), and also contributed (uncredited) to Lloyd"s most famous film Safety Last! (1923).
Havez died at home of a heart attack and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. His widow, a vaudevillian turned screenwriter, married director Edward Sedgwick and remained with him until his death in 1953. The X-Files Season 3 episode "Clyde Bruckman"s Final Repose" features a character named Clyde Bruckman who foresees how other people die.
Two minor detective characters on that episode are named Havez and Cline, after Eddie Cline, another writer who worked with Buster Keaton.