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Ben Hecht (I) (1894–1964)

Writer | Actor | Producer

Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood & Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing partner and friend Charles MacArthur... See full bio »

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in New York City, New York, USA

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(age 70) in New York City, New York, USA
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1995 Kiss of Death (1947 screenplay)
 
1992 Notorious (TV movie) (earlier screenplay / earlier story)
 
1988 Switching Channels (play "The Front Page")
 
1986 I Hate Actors (based on the novel by)
 
1983 Scarface (1932 screenplay - uncredited)
 
1982 Spéciale dernière (TV movie) (play "The Front Page")
 
1974 The Front Page (play)
 
1970 The Front Page (TV movie) (play)
 
1969 Gaily, Gaily (novel)
 
1967 Spéciale dernière (TV movie) (play)
 
1967 Casino Royale (uncredited)
 
1964 Circus World (screenplay)
 
1964 Destry (TV series)
– Ride to Rio Verde (1964) (original screenplay)
 
1964 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (uncredited)
 
1963 Reporter (TV movie)
 
1963 Cleopatra (uncredited)
 
1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo (book)
 
1962 Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)
 
1962 Walk on the Wild Side (uncredited)
 
1961 Theatre '62 (TV series)
– Notorious (1961) (original screenplay)
 
1960 North to Alaska (uncredited)
 
1959 Goodyear Theatre (TV series)
– Hello, Charlie (1959) (adaptation / book "Charlie")
 
1959 John Paul Jones (uncredited)
 
1959 The Ten Commandments (TV movie)
 
1958 The Gun Runners (uncredited)
 
1958 Queen of Outer Space (story "Queen of the Universe")
 
1958 The Fiend Who Walked the West (1947 screenplay Kiss of Death)
 
1957 Legend of the Lost
 
1957 A Farewell to Arms (screenplay)
 
1957 Matinee Theatre (TV series)
– The Star Sapphire (1957)
 
1956 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (uncredited)
 
1956 The Iron Petticoat (screenplay)
 
1956 Trapeze (uncredited)
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
– Twentieth Century (1956) (play)
 
1956 Miracle in the Rain (novel / screenplay)
 
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (uncredited)
 
1955 The Indian Fighter (screenplay)
 
1955 The Man with the Golden Arm (uncredited)
 
1955 Guys and Dolls (uncredited)
 
1952-1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV series)
– A Flor Eterna (1955) (play)
– O Espectro da Rosa (1953) (story)
– Crime Sem Paixão (1952) (screenplay "Crime Without Passion")
 
1954 Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV documentary)
 
1954 Ulysses (screenplay)
 
1954 Living It Up (play "Hazel Flagg")
 
1953 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)
– The World's My Oyster (1953) (written by)
 
1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV series)
– The Front Page (1953) (play)
– Twentieth Century (1953) (play)
 
1953 Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (TV series)
– Episode #1.7 (1953) (written by)
– Count Bruga (1953) (story)
– Miracle in the Rain (1953) (story)
– Episode #1.4 (1953) (story)
– Actor's Blood (1953) (story)
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1953 Indiscretion of an American Wife ( - uncredited / titles)
 
1952 Angel Face (uncredited)
 
1952 Hans Christian Andersen (uncredited)
 
1952 Monkey Business (screenplay)
 
1952 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
– Double Exposure (1952) (story)
 
1952 Full House (segment "Ransom of Red Chief" - uncredited)
 
1952 Actor's and Sin
 
1952 The Wild Heart (uncredited)
 
1949-1951 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series)
– The Pink Hussar (1951) (story)
– Miracle in the Rain (1950) (story)
– Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949) (story)
– The Rival Dummy (1949) (story)
 
1951 The Secret of Convict Lake (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1951 Strangers on a Train (uncredited)
 
1951 The Thing from Another World (uncredited)
 
1950 The Billy Rose Show (TV series)
– The Murder Club (1950) (original story)
 
1950 September Affair (uncredited)
 
1950 Edge of Doom (uncredited)
 
1950 Where the Sidewalk Ends (screenplay)
 
1949-1950 Actor's Studio (TV series)
– The Pink Hussar (1950) (story)
– Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949) (story)
 
1950 Perfect Strangers (play "Ladies and Gentlemen")
 
1949-1950 The Front Page (TV series)
– Episode #1.18 (1950) (play / screenplay)
– Episode #1.17 (1950) (play / screenplay)
– Episode #1.16 (1950) (play / screenplay)
– Episode #1.15 (1950) (play / screenplay)
– Episode #1.14 (1949) (play / screenplay)
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1949 The Inspector General (uncredited)
 
1949 Whirlpool (screenplay)
 
1949 Roseanna McCoy (uncredited)
 
1949 Love Happy (uncredited)
 
1949 The Ford Theatre Hour (TV series)
– The Twentieth Century (1949) (play)
 
1949 Big Jack (uncredited)
 
1948 Portrait of Jennie (uncredited)
 
1948 Cry of the City (uncredited)
 
1948 Rope (uncredited)
 
1948 The Front Page (TV movie) (play)
 
1948 The Miracle of the Bells (writer)
 
1947 The Paradine Case (additional dialogue - uncredited)
 
1947 Her Husband's Affairs
 
1947 Ride the Pink Horse (screenplay)
 
1947 Kiss of Death (screenplay)
 
1947 Dishonored Lady (uncredited)
 
1946 Duel in the Sun (uncredited)
 
1946 Notorious (written by)
 
1946 Specter of the Rose (written by)
 
1946 Gilda (uncredited)
 
1945 Cornered (uncredited)
 
1945 The Front Page (TV movie) (play)
 
1945 Spellbound (screenplay)
 
1945 Watchtower Over Tomorrow (short)
 
1944 Lifeboat (uncredited)
 
1943 The Outlaw (uncredited)
 
1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
 
1942 China Girl (written by)
 
1942 The Black Swan (screenplay)
 
1942 Tales of Manhattan
 
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point (uncredited)
 
1942 Roxie Hart (uncredited)
 
1941 Lydia (screenplay and dialogue)
 
1941 The Mad Doctor (uncredited)
 
1940 Comrade X (screen play)
 
1940 Second Chorus (uncredited)
 
1940 Angels Over Broadway (written by)
 
1940 Foreign Correspondent (uncredited)
 
1940 I Take This Woman (uncredited)
 
1940 The Shop Around the Corner (uncredited)
 
1940 His Girl Friday (play "The Front Page")
 
1939 Gone with the Wind (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1939 Lady of the Tropics (screen play)
 
1939 Some Like It Hot (play "The Great Magoo")
 
1939 It's a Wonderful World (based on an original story by / screen play)
 
1939 Wuthering Heights (screenplay)
 
1939 Let Freedom Ring (original story / screenplay)
 
1939 Stagecoach (uncredited)
 
1939 Gunga Din (story)
 
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces (uncredited)
 
1938 The Goldwyn Follies (story and screen play)
 
1937 Nothing Sacred (screen play)
 
1937 The Hurricane (uncredited)
 
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda (uncredited)
 
1937 Woman Chases Man (contributing writer - uncredited / unconfirmed)
 
1937 King of Gamblers (uncredited)
 
1937 A Star Is Born (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1936 Soak the Rich
 
1935 Barbary Coast
 
1935 Spring Tonic (play)
 
1935 Once in a Blue Moon
 
1935 The Scoundrel (story)
 
1935 The Florentine Dagger (by)
 
1934 The President Vanishes (uncredited)
 
1934 Crime Without Passion (story "Caballero of the Law" / written by)
 
1934 Shoot the Works (play)
 
1934 Twentieth Century (play - uncredited / screenplay)
 
1934 Upperworld (story)
 
1934 Viva Villa! (screen play)
 
1934 Riptide (uncredited)
 
1933 Design for Living (screenplay)
 
1933 Queen Christina (uncredited)
 
1933 Turn Back the Clock (screen play)
 
1933/I Topaze
 
1933 Hallelujah I'm a Bum (story)
 
1932 Rasputin and the Empress (uncredited)
 
1932 Back Street (uncredited)
 
1932 Million Dollar Legs (uncredited)
 
1932 Scarface (screen story)
 
1932 The Beast of the City (uncredited)
 
1931 The Unholy Garden (novel / screenplay)
 
1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet (uncredited)
 
1931 Homicide Squad (uncredited)
 
1931 Quick Millions (uncredited)
 
1931 The Front Page (by)
 
1930 Le spectre vert (story)
 
1930 Roadhouse Nights (story)
 
1930 Street of Chance (uncredited)
 
1929 The Unholy Night (story)
 
1929 The Great Gabbo (story "The Rival Dummy")
 
1928 The Big Noise (story)
 
1927 The American Beauty (uncredited)
 
1927 Underworld (story)
 
1926 The New Klondike (uncredited)
 
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1959 Goodyear Theatre (TV series)
Narrator
– Hello, Charlie (1959) … Narrator
 
1959 The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (TV series)
– This Murder Comes to You Live (1959)
 
1953 Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (TV series)
Narrator
– Episode #1.7 (1953) … Narrator
– Count Bruga (1953) … Narrator
– Miracle in the Rain (1953) … Narrator
– Episode #1.4 (1953) … Narrator
– Actor's Blood (1953) … Narrator
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1952 Actor's and Sin
Narrator (Woman of Sin sequence) (uncredited)
 
1946 Specter of the Rose
Waiter (uncredited)
 
1935 The Scoundrel
Flop House Bum (uncredited)
 
1934 Crime Without Passion
Court interviewer with pipe (uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (8 titles)
1952 Actor's and Sin (producer)
 
1946 Specter of the Rose (producer)
 
1942 China Girl (producer)
 
1940 Angels Over Broadway (producer)
 
1936 Soak the Rich (producer)
 
1935 Once in a Blue Moon (producer)
 
1935 The Scoundrel (producer)
 
1934 Crime Without Passion (producer)
 
Show ShowDirector (7 titles)
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1983 Scarface (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (3 titles)
1958-1959 The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.173 (1959) … Himself
– Episode #1.139 (1958) … Himself
 
1958 The Mike Wallace Interview (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 15 February 1958 (1958) … Himself
 
1956 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
– Richard J. Finnegan (1956) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (TV documentary)
Himself - Writer
 

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For many years I looked on movie writing as an amiable chore. It was a source of easy money and pleasant friendships. There was small responsibility. See more »

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If uncredited work is included, he is the best represented screenwriter in the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider). The films credited to Hecht on the list are Scarface, Gunga Din, Wuthering Heights, His Girl Friday (his credit is for writing the original "The Front Page")... See more »

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