Biography
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
Complete Filmography

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Self (archive footage)
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...

Hangup
1974
Director
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.

Shoot Out
1971
Director
Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hir...

Raid on Rommel
1971
Director
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscie...

True Grit
1969
Director
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marsha...

5 Card Stud
1968
Director
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

The Last Safari
1967
Director, Producer
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.

Nevada Smith
1966
Director, Producer
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and...

The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
Director
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of ...

Of Human Bondage
1964
Director
Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her con...

Circus World
1964
Director
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind betw...

How the West Was Won
1962
Director
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

North to Alaska
1960
Director, Producer
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has ...

Seven Thieves
1960
Director
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Woman Obsessed
1959
Director
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drift...

From Hell to Texas
1958
Director
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengef...

Legend of the Lost
1957
Producer, Director
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.

23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
Director
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child...

The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
Director
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.

The Racers
1955
Director
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.

Garden of Evil
1954
Director
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

Prince Valiant
1954
Director
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

White Witch Doctor
1953
Director
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fo...

Niagara
1953
Director
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who a...

O. Henry's Full House
1952
Director
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is...

Diplomatic Courier
1952
Director
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting poi...

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
Director
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Fourteen Hours
1951
Director
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of ...

Rawhide
1951
Director
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

You're in the Navy Now
1951
Director
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teake...

The Black Rose
1950
Director
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of ...

Down to the Sea in Ships
1949
Director
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark...

Call Northside 777
1948
Director
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal t...

Kiss of Death
1947
Director
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

13 Rue Madeleine
1947
Director
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, B...

The Dark Corner
1946
Director
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunk...

The House on 92nd Street
1945
Director
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

Nob Hill
1945
Director
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.

Home in Indiana
1944
Director
'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Thoug...

Wing and a Prayer
1944
Director
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M...

China Girl
1942
Director
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes fro...

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
Director
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress...

Sundown
1941
Director
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
Director
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His...

Brigham Young
1940
Director
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...

Johnny Apollo
1940
Director
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's releas...

The Real Glory
1939
Director
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous atta...

Spawn of the North
1938
Director
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Souls at Sea
1937
Director
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Lest We Forget
1937
Director
MGM hosts a salute to Will Rogers (1875-1935) shortly after his death. After a few words from Gary Cooper and Harry Carey, a look at Rogers' fatal tri...

Go West Young Man
1936
Director
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from on...

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
Director
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

Peter Ibbetson
1935
Director
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter i...

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
Director
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohamm...

Now and Forever
1934
Director
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a...

The Last Round-up
1934
Director
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Clev...

The Witching Hour
1934
Director
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes...

Come On, Marines!
1934
Director
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle wher...

To the Last Man
1933
Director
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Neva...

Man of the Forest
1933
Director
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retri...

Sunset Pass
1933
Director
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.

Under the Tonto Rim
1933
Director
Western comedy.

Buffalo Stampede
1933
Director
A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.

Wild Horse Mesa
1932
Director
Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.

Night After Night
1932
Assistant Director
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Heritage of the Desert
1932
Director
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.

The Texan
1930
Assistant Director
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.

The Virginian
1929
Assistant Director
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Wolf Song
1929
Assistant Director
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he mee...

The Shopworn Angel
1928
Assistant Director
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends...

The Awakening
1928
Assistant Director
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sister...

The Way of All Flesh
1927
Assistant Director
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is...

The Rough Riders
1927
Assistant Director
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. ...

Underworld
1927
Second Unit Director
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfr...

Mantrap
1926
Assistant Director
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorc...

The Dressmaker from Paris
1925
Assistant Director
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to p...

Honest Hutch
1920
Property Master
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub. One day, while digging for worms, Hutch u...

Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
Property Master
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an i...

Jubilo
1919
Property Master
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.

The Storm Woman
1917
Lost film.