37 Facts About Henry Hathaway

Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer.

Henry Hathaway is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne.

Henry Hathaway was born Henri Leopold de Fiennes, in Sacramento, California.

In 1908, at 10-years-of-age, Henry Hathaway began appearing as a child actor with the American Film Company under the mentorship of director Allan Dwan.

Henry Hathaway left school in 1912 at the age of fourteen to become an assistant property master at Universal Pictures, and began playing adolescent roles in 1917.

In 1923, Henry Hathaway began working in silent films as an assistant to directors such as Victor Fleming and Josef von Sternberg and made the transition to sound with them.

Henry Hathaway was the assistant director to Fred Niblo in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur starring Francis X Bushman and Ramon Novarro.

Henry Hathaway made his directorial debut with a Western film production at Paramount, Heritage of the Desert.

Henry Hathaway got the job because the film changed directors and Cooper, who had director approval, admired Henry Hathaway's films.

The movie was a hit and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and for which Henry Hathaway won his only nomination for the Academy Award for Directing.

Henry Hathaway was now established as one of the main directors on the Paramount lot.

Henry Hathaway worked on the troubled I Loved a Soldier which was never finished, and did a Mae West movie, Go West, Young Man.

Henry Hathaway was back with Cooper for the anti-slaving adventure story, Souls at Sea, co-starring George Raft.

Henry Hathaway worked for 20th Century Fox directing the studio's biggest male star, Tyrone Power, in Johnny Apollo and Brigham Young.

Henry Hathaway adored working for Darryl Zanuck calling him the finest filmmaker in America.

Henry Hathaway says he never turned down a script Zanuck offered him.

Henry Hathaway returned to Paramount to direct John Wayne in The Shepherd of the Hills.

Henry Hathaway returned to adventure films with Down to the Sea in Ships.

Henry Hathaway was reunited with Power for The Black Rose.

Henry Hathaway had some time off for a cancer operation then returned to make The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel was a biopic of General Rommel.

Henry Hathaway directed the film noir Niagara which was Marilyn Monroe's breakthrough role and White Witch Doctor with Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum.

Henry Hathaway was reunited with Cooper on Garden of Evil, a Western, then did the swashbuckler Prince Valiant.

Henry Hathaway made two thrillers with Van Johnson: The Bottom of the Bottle and 23 Paces to Baker Street.

Henry Hathaway then made a melodrama Woman Obsessed and thriller Seven Thieves.

Henry Hathaway was reunited with Wayne on the comedy-action "northern," North to Alaska.

Henry Hathaway was one of three directors on the Cinerama Western, How the West Was Won, directing the bulk of the film, including the river, prairie and train robbery sequences.

Henry Hathaway was meant to direct McLintock but the producers would not meet his salary.

Henry Hathaway visited Spain to work with Wayne again on Circus World.

Wayne asked Henry Hathaway to cast John Smith in the role of Steve McCabe in the film; from 1959 to 1963, Smith had played the part of rancher Slim Sherman on NBC's Laramie series.

Circus World was a box-office disappointment but Wayne and Henry Hathaway's next movie together, The Sons of Katie Elder, was a hit.

Henry Hathaway visited Africa to make The Last Safari, then did the Western 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum.

Henry Hathaway stepped in for George Seaton in directing some winter outdoor scenes for the all-star Airport, which starred Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin.

Henry Hathaway did it as a favour for Seaton but took no money.

Henry Hathaway made a war movie with Richard Burton, Raid on Rommel, then made another Western for Wallis, Shoot Out.

Henry Hathaway turned down Rooster Cogburn as he did not like the script.

Henry Hathaway died from complications of a heart attack at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on February 11,1985, at the age of 86.

Henry Hathaway is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.