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.
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Academy Awards
Best Story
Known For
Scarface
(1983)
Original Film Writer
Scarface
(1932)
Screenplay
The Front Page
(1931)
Writer
Notorious
(1946)
Writer
Spellbound
(1945)
Screenplay
Lifeboat
(1944)
Writer
Twentieth Century
(1934)
Screenplay
Wuthering Heights
(1939)
Screenplay
Monkey Business
(1952)
Screenplay
Ulysses
(1954)
Screenplay
Gunga Din
(1939)
Story
The Front Page
(1974)
Theatre Play
Whirlpool
(1950)
Screenplay
Queen Christina
(1933)
Writer
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)
Writer
Switching Channels
(1988)
Writer
Full Filmography
Writing
The New Klondike
(1926)
Writer
Underworld
(1927)
Story
The Big Noise
(1928)
Story
The Unholy Night
(1929)
Story
The Great Gabbo
(1929)
Story
Street of Chance
(1930)
Writer
Roadhouse Nights
(1930)
Story
The Green Specter
(1930)
Story
The Front Page
(1931)
Writer
The Unholy Garden
(1931)
Dialogue and Story
Quick Millions
(1931)
Writer
Homicide Squad
(1931)
Writer
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
(1931)
Writer
Scarface
(1932)
Screenplay
Million Dollar Legs
(1932)
Writer
The Beast of the City
(1932)
Writer
Back Street
(1932)
Writer
Rasputin and the Empress
(1932)
Writer
Design for Living
(1933)
Screenplay
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
(1933)
Story
Turn Back the Clock
(1933)
Screenplay
Topaze
(1933)
Screenplay
Queen Christina
(1933)
Writer
Twentieth Century
(1934)
Screenplay
Crime Without Passion
(1934)
Screenplay and Story
Shoot the Works
(1934)
Theatre Play and Writer
Upperworld
(1934)
Story
Viva Villa!
(1934)
Screenplay
The President Vanishes
(1934)
Writer
Riptide
(1934)
Writer
Barbary Coast
(1935)
Writer
The Scoundrel
(1935)
Story
The Florentine Dagger
(1935)
Writer
Spring Tonic
(1935)
Theatre Play
Once in a Blue Moon
(1935)
Writer
Soak the Rich
(1936)
Writer
Nothing Sacred
(1937)
Screenplay
A Star Is Born
(1937)
Writer
King of Gamblers
(1937)
Writer
Woman Chases Man
(1937)
Writer
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)
Writer
The Goldwyn Follies
(1938)
Screenplay and Story
Angels with Dirty Faces
(1938)
Writer
Wuthering Heights
(1939)
Screenplay
It's a Wonderful World
(1939)
Screenplay and Story
Let Freedom Ring
(1939)
Story and Screenplay
Lady of the Tropics
(1939)
Screenplay
Gunga Din
(1939)
Story
Some Like It Hot
(1939)
Theatre Play and Writer
Eternally Yours
(1939)
Writer
His Girl Friday
(1940)
Theatre Play and Screenplay
Comrade X
(1940)
Screenplay
Angels Over Broadway
(1940)
Writer
I Take This Woman
(1940)
Writer
Lydia
(1941)
Screenplay
Second Chorus
(1941)
Writer
The Black Swan
(1942)
Screenplay
China Girl
(1942)
Screenplay
Tales of Manhattan
(1942)
Writer
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
(1942)
Writer
Lifeboat
(1944)
Writer
Spellbound
(1945)
Screenplay
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
(1945)
Screenplay
Cornered
(1945)
Writer
The Front Page
(1945)
Writer
Specter of the Rose
(1946)
Writer
Duel in the Sun
(1946)
Writer
Notorious
(1946)
Writer
Kiss of Death
(1947)
Screenplay
Ride the Pink Horse
(1947)
Screenplay
Her Husband's Affairs
(1947)
Writer
The Miracle of the Bells
(1948)
Screenplay
The Front Page
(1948)
Writer
Portrait of Jennie
(1948)
Writer
Miracle in the Rain
(1949)
Writer
Big Jack
(1949)
Writer
The Twentieth Century
(1949)
Writer
Roseanna McCoy
(1949)
Writer
Concerning a Woman of Sin
(1949)
Writer
Whirlpool
(1950)
Screenplay
Edge of Doom
(1950)
Writer
Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950)
Screenplay
Perfect Strangers
(1950)
Theatre Play
The Front Page
(1950)
Writer
The Pink Hussar
(1950)
Writer
September Affair
(1950)
Writer
The Murder Club
(1950)
Writer
Monkey Business
(1952)
Screenplay
Actors and Sin
(1952)
Writer
Indiscretion of an American Wife
(1953)
Writer
Living It Up
(1954)
Theatre Play
Ulysses
(1954)
Screenplay
The Indian Fighter
(1955)
Screenplay
Trapeze
(1956)
Writer
The Iron Petticoat
(1956)
Screenplay
Miracle in the Rain
(1956)
Novel and Screenplay
A Farewell to Arms
(1957)
Screenplay
Legend of the Lost
(1957)
Screenplay
Queen of Outer Space
(1958)
Story
The Fiend Who Walked The West
(1958)
Adaptation
North to Alaska
(1960)
Screenplay
Billy Rose's Jumbo
(1962)
Theatre Play
Circus World
(1964)
Screenplay
Gaily, Gaily
(1969)
Novel
The Front Page
(1974)
Theatre Play
Scarface
(1983)
Original Film Writer
I Hate Actors
(1986)
Novel
Switching Channels
(1988)
Writer
Kiss of Death
(1995)
Original Film Writer
Acting
Crime Without Passion
(1934)
Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
The Scoundrel
(1935)
Flop House Bum
Angels Over Broadway
(1940)
Man in Night Court (uncredited)
Actors and Sin
(1952)
Narrator (segment "Woman of Sin") (voice)
Crew
Queen Christina
(1933)
Additional Writing
The Hurricane
(1937)
Additional Writing
Stagecoach
(1939)
Additional Writing
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
Additional Writing
The Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Additional Writing
Gilda
(1946)
Additional Writing
Rope
(1948)
Additional Writing
We Were Strangers
(1949)
Additional Writing
The Inspector General
(1949)
Additional Writing
Love Happy
(1949)
Additional Writing
The Secret of Convict Lake
(1951)
Additional Writing
The Man with the Golden Arm
(1955)
Additional Writing
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
(1964)
Additional Writing
Directing
Crime Without Passion
(1934)
Director
The Scoundrel
(1935)
Director
Once in a Blue Moon
(1935)
Director
Soak the Rich
(1936)
Director
Angels Over Broadway
(1940)
Director
Specter of the Rose
(1946)
Director
The Front Page
(1948)
Director
Miracle in the Rain
(1949)
Director
Concerning a Woman of Sin
(1949)
Director
The Pink Hussar
(1950)
Director
Actors and Sin
(1952)
Director
Production