Background
William K. Howard was born on June 16, 1899 in Saint Marys, Ohio.
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William Howard
William K. Howard was an American film director, writer, and producer.
Education
After serving in Europe during World War I, he graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in engineering law.
Career
Considered one of Hollywood"s leading directors, he directed over 50 films from 1921 to 1946, including The Thundering Herd (1925), The Power and the Glory (1933), Fire Over England (1937), and Johnny Come Lately (1943). In 1920, Howard began working in Hollywood as an assistant director on The Adorable Savage. The following year, at the age of twenty-two, he directed his first film, Get Your Manitoba
That same year he directed two additional films—Play Square and What Love Will Do—and write The One-Manitoba Trail.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Howard completing two or three films each year. In the 1920s his directorial work included The Border Legion (1924), The Thundering Herd (1925), White Gold (1927), The Valiant (1929), and Christina (1929).
In the 1930s he directed such films as Sherlock Holmes (1932), Rendezvous (1935), Fire Over England (1937), and Back Door to Heaven (1939). Howard"s 1933 film The Power and the Glory with Spencer Tracy was overlooked for decades, but in recent years it has received significant reappraisal due to recognition that the film was a major influence on the structure of Citizen Kane.
Howard began directing 1940"s Knute Rockne, All American, but after a disagreement with the studio was replaced by Lloyd Bacon.
After suffering from a throat malignancy, which started in 1953, he died in Los Angeles on February 21, 1954 at the age of 54. On February 8, 1960, he was awarded the posthumous honor of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street.
Achievements
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The film includes the scene in which future President of the United States Ronald Reagan, portraying terminally ill football player George Gipp, asks Rockne to have the team "win just one for the Gipper.
Connections
- Father:
- Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
- Mother:
- Margaret Audley
- Spouse:
- Elizabeth Dacre
- Half-brother:
- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
- Son:
- Francis Howard
- Son:
- Philip Howard
He was an English nobleman and politician.
He was an English nobleman.
