Director

Howard Higgin

Directing

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Directed movies: 19Directed series: 0All crew credits: 36

TMDB ID: 588447

IMDb ID: nm0383304

Known for: Directing

Born: February 15, 1891

Died: December 16, 1938

Age: 47

Place of birth: Denver, Colorado, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1920 - 1978

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 4.93

Wikidata: Q3141559

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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.

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