Director

Kenneth Hawks

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1148023

IMDb ID: nm0370275

Known for: Directing

Born: August 12, 1898

Died: January 2, 1930

Age: 31

Place of birth: Goshen, Indiana, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1927 - 1930

Years active: 4

Wikidata: Q6390193

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Biography

Kenneth Hawks, younger brother of director Howard Hawks by two years, and producer William Hawks by one year, was born in 1898 in Goshen, Indiana. A veteran of World War I in the United States Army Air Service and, later, graduating from Yale University, he began directing films for Fox Film Corporation in 1929, three years after older brother Howard began his directorial career. Kenneth Hawks married actress and future Oscar-winner Mary Astor in 1928. Astor was widowed upon his death. On January 2, 1930, with two films to his credit, Hawks and nine other crew members died in the collision of two camera planes over the Pacific Ocean off Southern California while he was directing the film Such Men are Dangerous.

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