Howard R. HughesFilmography

Born:: December 24, 1905 in Houston, TX
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: It's surprising that he wasn't born with the name The Amazing Howard Hughes. Since this essay deals only with Hughes' film work, we'll leave a survey of his aviation and industrial accomplishments, and his hermitlike final years, to his many biographers. Tenuously connected with the movie...Read More

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Howard Hughes: The Real Aviator

Synopsis: Howard Hughes: The Real Aviator debuted in stores just a month before the theatrical release of Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator. This documentary utilizes audio recordings of the man, as well as memos written by him and interviews he gave, in order to tell the story of how he Read More

2004
Howard Hughes: The Man & the Madness

Synopsis: One of America's most fascinating public figures is profiled in this documentary. As an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Hughes lived a varied and famous life. He inherited his grand oil fortune at the age of 17 and quickly took off for Hollywood, but the film industry wasn't Hughes' Read More

1999
Two Tickets to Broadway

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria de Haven, Eddie Bracken, Ann Miller

Synopsis: Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan boarding house populated by such showbiz hopefuls as Ann Miller, Tony Martin, Gloria De Haven and Barbara Lawrence Read More

1951
His Kind of Woman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine slapstick comedy with excessive violence, resulting in a film that depends more on stereotypes than on plot development. Nick (Raymond Burr), is a deported gang boss who needs Read More

1951
Vendetta

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Faith Domergue, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Joseph Calleia, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Vendetta began as a pet project of producer/director/writer Preston Sturges. Producer Howard R. Hughes was at first enthusiastic about the project, but lost interest after a bitter argument with Sturges. Director Max Ophuls was originally slated to direct, but Hughes lost interest in him and hired Mel Ferrer Read More

1950
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Al Bridge, Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Raymond Walburn, Georgia Caine, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Hamilton, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite Harold Lloyd returned before the cameras in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. The project began as a labor of love between Lloyd and the brilliant, innovative producer/writer/director Preston Sturges Read More

1947
The Outlaw

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia

Synopsis: Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely thanks to the costuming of leading lady Jane Russell (or, more accurately, its relative absence). Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) and Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) are Read More

1943
Sky Devils

Crew: Producer

Actors: Spencer Tracy, William "Stage" Boyd, George Cooper, Ann Dvorak, Billy Bevan

Synopsis: Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time indulging in his fascination for aviation, erstwhile Hollywood producer Howard Hughes came up with the relentlessly silly Sky Devils. Spencer Tracy and George Cooper star as Read More

1932
Cock of the Air

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chester Morris, Billie Dove, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from WW I Allies. To calm her down, a meeting is arranged between the actress and a charming Army official in Italy. Initially both of them resist the artificially designed Read More

1932
Scarface

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release until after that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy. Paul Muni stars as prohibition-era mobster Read More

1932
The Front Page

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit stars Adolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns and Pat O'Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of getting married and retiring from Burns' dirty little tabloid, but Read More

1931
The Age for Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan, Adrian Morris

Synopsis: Producer Howard R. Hughes intended to use Age for Love to prove that his current flame, silent-film leading lady Billie Dove, would be a smash hit in talkies. Beautiful Dove plays a working girl who consents to marry Charles Starrett, on the condition that she not be expected to bear children. Read More

1931
Hell's Angels

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival

Synopsis: No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like Hell's Angels. Given Hughes' comparative inexperience as a moviemaker, however, everyone was taken slightly aback that the finished film was as good as it was. The very American Ben Lyon Read More

1930
The Racket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, George E. Stone, John Darrow

Synopsis: This solid gangster flick from director Lewis Milestone was based on a stage play and earned a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards. Louis Wolheim stars as Nick Scarsi, a tough-guy bootlegger with political connections that enrage a local police captain, McQuigg (Thomas Meighan). In order Read More

1928
Two Arabian Knights

Crew: Producer

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim

Synopsis: Produced by young aviation mogul Howard Hughes, Two Arabian Nights details the exploits of eternally squabbling sergeant Louis Wolheim and private William Boyd. Captured by the Germans during WWI, our heroes escape by disguising themselves as Arabs. This clever masquerade wins Wolheim and Boyd Read More

1927
Everybody's Acting

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling, Louise Dresser, Lawrence Gray, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: This sentimental comedy begins when four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu. The girl grows up to become Doris Poole (Betty Bronson), and it is hoped by her foster daddies that she will become an actress herself. When Doris falls in love with Read More

1926