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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.
Most Popular William K. Howard Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
03 September 1943
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased.
21 September 1923
Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.
19 October 1930
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty.
19 July 1941
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
06 October 1933
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company.
20 March 1942
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman.
12 December 1926
Percy Ashfield is to marry Mary Bowman but her father objects. He objects because while the Bowmans and Percy and others with vested interest are all assembled in Ashfield's castle admiring the pearls that are to be Mary's wedding present, a girl rushes in carrying a baby and claiming the Percy is the baby's father, and her claims are supported by a doctor who follows her in adding that the girl is mentally deranged over Percy's faithfulness.
06 December 1931
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
29 June 1930
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past!
04 January 1928
Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
11 November 1937
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him.
09 November 1934
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
03 October 1926
The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money.
19 May 1929
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
24 February 1927
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
24 December 1922
First one stranger, then another, arrive at the presidio, each with a government pass and each claiming to have been robbed by the notorious Captain Fly-by-Night and his highwaymen.
27 January 1946
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
15 February 1931
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake.
09 September 1922
Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up against a master swindler (George Webb).
01 March 1925
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
19 August 1931
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers.
26 August 1928
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
05 March 1937
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title.
06 July 1922
Trooper O'Neil is out to get his man -- in this case, whoever murdered Jacob Dell. He poses as a trapper and heads for Saskatchewan country, where he meets and falls in love with Marie.
23 May 1926
Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, escorted by Père Bénédict.
22 May 1936
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home.
25 October 1935
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
02 February 1934
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
02 November 1929
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad.
27 March 1921
A young rancher searchs for the villain who murdered his father and ran off with his sister.
31 October 1923
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
01 December 1922
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl.
01 December 1937
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.
17 August 1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
22 June 1925
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again.
18 November 1927
Nightclub dancer Glory Frayne falls in love with championship boxer Red Lucas . Luca's latest opponent is likeable young pugilist Johnny Regan .
30 July 1932
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
14 March 1926
This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La Rocque) is a war hero who is very much down on his luck.
01 May 1932
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
06 April 1925
Cal Thurman, a timid fellow, thinking that the woman he is to meet at the train station is an old maid, avoids her when he finds that she is a pretty young woman who flirts with the cowboys.
19 April 1939
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
05 November 1932
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl.
19 October 1924
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion.
22 October 1944
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
23 November 1924
East Side boy Peter Mullaney longs to become a policeman. He goes to the training school but is turned down because he is not up to the standard of height, until he demonstrates his prowess by knocking down a big bully.
01 March 1935
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
15 December 1929
This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) tells the tale of Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas.
15 November 1935
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
14 August 1921
Johnny Carroll joins a gang of thieves and is arrested by Detective McQuade for picking Judge Kerrigan's pocket.
22 May 1921
Story of a Scottish coal miner-turned-Northwest Mounted Police Officer.
20 January 1929
Two World War I veterans are wrongly accused of killing a rancher and arrested for murder. With the help of the rancher's daughter, they escape and set out to capture the real culprit.
16 February 1934
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
