Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

  • Birthday: 1894-02-28
  • Deathday: 1964-04-18
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)

Actors and Sin

1952

As Narrator (segment "Woman of Sin") (voice)

The Scoundrel

1935

As Flop House Bum

Angels Over Broadway

1940

As Man in Night Court (uncredited)

Production

Queen Christina

1933

As Additional Writing

The Paradine Case

1947

As Additional Dialogue

The Hurricane

1937

As Additional Writing

Foreign Correspondent

1940

As Additional Writing

Gilda

1946

As Additional Writing

The Shop Around the Corner

1940

As Additional Writing

We Were Strangers

1949

As Additional Writing

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Director

Angels Over Broadway

1940

As Director

The Scoundrel

1935

As Director

Specter of the Rose

1946

As Director

Actors and Sin

1952

As Director

Soak the Rich

1936

As Director

Once in a Blue Moon

1935

As Director

The Front Page

1948

As Director

Miracle in the Rain

1949

As Director

Concerning a Woman of Sin

1949

As Director

The Pink Hussar

1950

As Director

Angels Over Broadway

1940

As Producer

China Girl

1942

As Producer

Specter of the Rose

1946

As Producer

The Scoundrel

1935

As Producer

Soak the Rich

1936

As Producer

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Producer

Once in a Blue Moon

1935

As Producer

The Man with the Golden Arm

1955

As Screenplay

Scarface

1932

As Screenplay

The Front Page

1974

As Theatre Play

His Girl Friday

1940

As Theatre Play

Wuthering Heights

1939

As Screenplay

Spellbound

1945

As Screenplay

Kiss of Death

1947

As Screenplay

North to Alaska

1960

As Screenplay

Monkey Business

1952

As Screenplay

Twentieth Century

1934

As Screenplay

Comrade X

1940

As Screenplay

Switching Channels

1988

As Writer

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Screenplay

Trapeze

1956

As Writer

The Iron Petticoat

1956

As Screenplay

Whirlpool

1950

As Screenplay

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

1964

As Writer

Edge of Doom

1950

As Writer

The Black Swan

1942

As Screenplay

Underworld

1927

As Story

Angels Over Broadway

1940

As Writer

The Front Page

1931

As Writer

Billy Rose's Jumbo

1962

As Theatre Play

Queen of Outer Space

1958

As Story

The Miracle of the Bells

1948

As Screenplay

Nothing Sacred

1937

As Screenplay

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

As Screenplay

It's a Wonderful World

1939

As Screenplay

Ride the Pink Horse

1947

As Screenplay

China Girl

1942

As Screenplay

Specter of the Rose

1946

As Writer

Lydia

1941

As Screenplay

The Indian Fighter

1955

As Screenplay

Design for Living

1933

As Screenplay

Miracle in the Rain

1956

As Screenplay

Miracle in the Rain

1956

As Novel

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

1933

As Story

Turn Back the Clock

1933

As Screenplay

Gaily, Gaily

1969

As Novel

Let Freedom Ring

1939

As Screenplay

Let Freedom Ring

1939

As Story

Shoot the Works

1934

As Theatre Play

Circus World

1964

As Screenplay

Street of Chance

1930

As Writer

The Unholy Night

1929

As Story

Barbary Coast

1935

As Writer

The Goldwyn Follies

1938

As Screenplay

The Goldwyn Follies

1938

As Story

Lady of the Tropics

1939

As Screenplay

Topaze

1933

As Screenplay

Tales of Manhattan

1942

As Writer

Roadhouse Nights

1930

As Story

The Great Gabbo

1929

As Story

Stagecoach

1939

As Writer

Upperworld

1934

As Story

His Girl Friday

1940

As Screenplay

Her Husband's Affairs

1947

As Writer

Viva Villa!

1934

As Screenplay

Million Dollar Legs

1932

As Writer

Perfect Strangers

1950

As Theatre Play

The President Vanishes

1934

As Writer

A Farewell to Arms

1957

As Screenplay

I Take This Woman

1940

As Writer

Gunga Din

1939

As Story

Rope

1948

As Writer

The Big Noise

1928

As Story

A Star Is Born

1937

As Writer

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

1945

As Screenplay

Soak the Rich

1936

As Writer

The Scoundrel

1935

As Story

Some Like It Hot

1939

As Theatre Play

The Unholy Garden

1931

As Dialogue

Dishonored Lady

1947

As Screenplay

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Story

The Florentine Dagger

1935

As Writer

Living It Up

1954

As Theatre Play

Cornered

1945

As Writer

Cry of the City

1948

As Writer

The Green Specter

1930

As Story

Spring Tonic

1935

As Theatre Play

The New Klondike

1926

As Writer

Quick Millions

1931

As Writer

Homicide Squad

1931

As Writer

The Beast of the City

1932

As Writer

Back Street

1932

As Writer

Queen Christina

1933

As Writer

Riptide

1934

As Writer

Shoot the Works

1934

As Writer

Once in a Blue Moon

1935

As Writer

King of Gamblers

1937

As Writer

Woman Chases Man

1937

As Writer

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

As Writer

Some Like It Hot

1939

As Writer

Eternally Yours

1939

As Writer

Second Chorus

1941

As Writer

The Front Page

1945

As Writer

Duel in the Sun

1946

As Writer

The Paradine Case

1947

As Writer

The Front Page

1948

As Writer

Portrait of Jennie

1948

As Writer

Miracle in the Rain

1949

As Writer

Big Jack

1949

As Writer

The Twentieth Century

1949

As Writer

Love Happy

1949

As Writer

Roseanna McCoy

1949

As Writer

The Inspector General

1949

As Writer

The Front Page

1950

As Writer

The Pink Hussar

1950

As Writer

September Affair

1950

As Writer

The Murder Club

1950

As Writer

Actors and Sin

1952

As Writer

Kiss of Death

1995

As Original Film Writer

I Hate Actors

1986

As Novel

The Unholy Garden

1931

As Story

Ulysses

1954

As Screenplay

Notorious

1946

As Writer

Scarface

1983

As Original Film Writer

Lifeboat

1944

As Writer

Legend of the Lost

1957

As Screenplay

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