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Henry Hathaway
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American film director and producer (1898-1985)
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Henry Hathaway (1898–1985) was an American film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter. Born in Sacramento, California, he began his professional work period in 1925. His career included directing films such as *Niagara*, *Nevada Smith*, and *Legend of the lost*. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Hathaway died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in Hollywood. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. A native English speaker, he worked in the English language.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1898
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Legend of the lost
- Nob Hill
- Niagara
- Henry Hathaway
- Nevada Smith
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Sacramento, California, United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring John Wayne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Hathaway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self (archive footage)2010
- The Storm Woman1917
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1945-10-01
- Active to
- 1979-01-13
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 122
- Total plays
- 259
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Henry+Hathaway">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,499x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,824x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,478x
- Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 14,321x
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Key facts
- Born
- Henri Léopold de Fiennes , ( 1898-03-13 ) March 13, 1898, Sacramento, California , U.S.
- Died
- February 11, 1985 (1985-02-11) (aged 86), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Resting place
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
- Occupations
- Film director film producer
- Years active
- 1925–1974
- Spouse
- Elvira Weil ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1919 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1931 ) Blanche "Skip" Gonzales ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 )
- Parents
- Rhody Hathaway (father) Jean Hathaway (mother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sacramento
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Occupation
- producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Henry Hathaway 1944 press photo (cropped).jpg
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1898-03-13
- date of death
- 1985-02-11
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- place of burial
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Director
- Commons category
- Henry Hathaway
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Henry Hathaway
- name in native language
- Henry Hathaway
- start of work period
- 1925-00-00
- writing language
- English language
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry Hathaway (born Henri Léopold de Fiennes; March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer, whose career spanned from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was best known as a director of Western, adventure, and noir films, especially starring John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, and Gregory Peck. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), starring Cooper.
According to the BFI, Hathaway "epitomised what’s known as the ‘journeyman’ director."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Henry Hathaway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.