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Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface , Bringing Up Baby , Only Angels Have Wings , His Girl Friday , Sergeant York , To Have and Have Not , The Big... Sleep , Red River , The Thing from Another World , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , and Rio Bravo . In 1975, Hawks was awarded the Honorary Academy Award as "a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema," and in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York. Howard Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana on May 30, 1896. Hawks was the first-born child of Frank W. Hawks , a wealthy paper manufacturer, and the former Helen Howard , the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.
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Christian Nyby was an American television and film director. Born in Los Angeles, California, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s. During this period, he worked on four films for famous director Howard Hawks, of which one led to an Academy Award nomination. He began his career in... the carpentry division at the studios, worked his way up to editor, then received his first directing credit on Howard Hawks' 1951 production of The Thing from Another World , an instant success. Nyby went on to have a prolific television and movie directing career, from the 1950s to the 1970s. He directed episodes of almost every major television show of the period, from John Payne's The Restless Gun, Perry Mason, Emergency!, The Twilight Zone, to Kojak. He died at age 80 in Temecula, California. Nyby is the father of Christian I. Nyby II, a prolific television director in his own right.
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