Howard Higgin

Personal Info

Known ForDirecting
Born1891-02-15
BirthplaceDenver, Colorado, USA

Howard Higgin

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

Production & Directing (42)

1940
5.4
5.2
1937
6.5
1936
The Invisible RayOriginal Story
6.4
1934
The Line-UpDirector
3.5
1933
6.0
1933
5.3
1933
5.3
1932
The Last ManDirector
9.0
1932
6.5
1932
Hell's HouseDirector
5.3
1932
5.3
1931
5.2
5.2
1930
Her ManScreenstory
5.2
1929
5.1
1929
High VoltageDirector
5.2
1929
5.7
1928
5.7
1928
PowerDirector
8.0
1928
SkyscraperDirector
5.8
1927
7.0
7.0
1926
10.0
10.0
10.0
7.0
10.0
1925
6.8
1925
Tomorrow's LoveScreenplay
9.0
1924
Broken BarriersScenario Writer
3.7
7.0
10.0
1923
7.0
1923
7.0
1922
Rent FreeDirector
9.0
1920
Why Change Your Wife?Production Manager
5.6
7.0
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