William K. Howard

from St. Marys, Ohio, USA

Artwork for Back Door to Heaven

Biography

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.

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Timeline

1946Aged 47

  • Poster for A Guy Could Change

    Director

1944Aged 45

  • Poster for When the Lights Go On Again

    Director

1943Aged 44

  • Poster for Johnny Come Lately

    Director

1942Aged 43

  • Poster for Klondike Fury

    Director

1941Aged 42

  • Poster for Bullets for O'Hara

    Director

1940Aged 41

  • Poster for Money and the Woman

    Director

1939Aged 40

  • Poster for Back Door to Heaven

    Prosecutor (uncredited)

1937Aged 38

  • Poster for Fire Over England

    Director

  • Poster for The Squeaker

    Director

  • Poster for The Green Cockatoo

    Producer

1936Aged 37

  • Poster for The Princess Comes Across

    Director

1935Aged 36

  • Poster for Vanessa: Her Love Story

    Director

  • Poster for Rendezvous

    Producer

  • Poster for Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Director

1934Aged 35

  • Poster for This Side of Heaven

    Director

  • Poster for The Cat and the Fiddle

    Director

  • Poster for Evelyn Prentice

    Director

1933Aged 34

  • Poster for The Power and the Glory

    Director

1932Aged 33

  • Poster for The Trial of Vivienne Ware

    Director

  • Poster for The First Year

    Director

  • Poster for Sherlock Holmes

    Director

1931Aged 32

  • Poster for Don't Bet on Women

    Director

  • Poster for Transatlantic

    Director

  • Poster for Surrender

    Director

1930Aged 31

  • Poster for Good Intentions

    Director

  • Poster for Scotland Yard

    Director

1929Aged 30

  • Poster for Sin Town

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Valiant

    Producer

  • Poster for Love, Live & Laugh

    Director

  • Poster for Christina

    Director

1928Aged 29

  • Poster for A Ship Comes In

    Director

  • Poster for The River Pirate

    Director

1927Aged 28

  • Poster for White Gold

    Director

  • Poster for The Main Event

    Director

1926Aged 27

  • Poster for Red Dice

    Director

  • Poster for Volcano

    Director

  • Poster for Gigolo

    Director

  • Poster for Bachelor Brides

    Director

1925Aged 26

  • Poster for The Thundering Herd

    Director

  • Poster for Code of the West

    Director

  • Poster for The Light of Western Stars

    Director

1924Aged 25

  • Poster for The Border Legion

    Director

  • Poster for East of Broadway

    Director

1923Aged 24

  • Poster for Danger Ahead

    Director

  • Poster for Let's Go

    Director

1922Aged 23

  • Poster for Trooper O'Neill

    Scenario Writer

  • Poster for The Crusader

    Writer

  • Poster for Deserted at the Altar

    Director

  • Poster for Captain Fly-by-Night

    Director

1921Aged 22

  • Poster for The One-Man Trail

    Writer

  • Poster for Get Your Man

    Director

  • Poster for Play Square

    Director