He was natural Howard Winchester Hawks in Goshen, Indiana. He died within Palm Springs, California, from the aftermath of a fall.

Hawks was known for his versatility as a director, cinematography comedies, dramas, & Westerns by having equal ease & skill. Critic Leonard Maltin has labelled Hawks "the greatest American director who is not a household name," noting that, when his function might not become too called Ford, Welles, or Hitchcock, he is no less a gifted movie maker.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Howard Hawks has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.

Hawks was infamous for fabricating stories all about a motion-picture show business, unremarkably inside how else which inflated his already considerable contributions thereto. Of these such story has it that Hawks told Ernest Hemingway that he can produce the good flick away from a worst tool that Hemingway got ever written, at which point Hemingway challenged him to produce a moving picture away from To Have and Have Not.

Filmography (director)
The Road to Glory (1926) Fig Leaves (1926) The Cradle Snatchers (1927) Paid to Love (1927) A Girl in Every Port (1928) Fazil (1928) The Air Circus (1928) ''Trent's Last Case (1929) The Dawn Patrol (1930) The Criminal Code (1931) La Foule hurle (1932) Scarface (1932) The Crowd Roars (1932) Tiger Shark (1932) Today We Live (1933) The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) (uncredited) Viva Villa! (1934) (uncredited) Twentieth Century (1934) Barbary Coast (1935) Ceiling Zero (1936) Sutter's Gold (1936) (uncredited) The Road to Glory (1936) Come and Get It (1936) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Only Angels Have Wings (1939) His Girl Friday (1940) Sergeant York (1941) Ball of Fire (1941) Air Force (1943) The Outlaw (1943) (uncredited) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) Red River (1948) A Song Is Born (1948) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) The Thing From Another World (1951) (uncredited) The Big Sky (1952) Monkey Business (1952) O. Henry's Full House (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (1952) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Land of the Pharaohs (1955) Rio Bravo (1959) Hatari! (1962) Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) Red Line 7000 (1965) El Dorado (1966) Rio Lobo (1970)

Books
Hawks: A Grey Wild dog of Hollywood, Todd MacCarthy (Grove Press, 1997) Howard Hawks: U.s. Creative person, Jim Hillier, Peter Wollen (British Film Institute, 1997) Hawks by Hawks'', Joseph MacBride (University of California Press, 1982)