Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American
writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.Higgin
was production manager on Cecil De Mille's Forbidden
Fruit(1921).Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for
legendary Wallace Reid, Rent Free. His later films include High
Voltage and Skyscraper, and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable
(as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the
unshaven villain in The Painted Desert), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis
(in Hell's House), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil
Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others.Higgins'
movie career spanned 18 years, having begun working on film crews in
1919. He died in Los Angeles at age 47.
writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.Higgin
was production manager on Cecil De Mille's Forbidden
Fruit(1921).Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for
legendary Wallace Reid, Rent Free. His later films include High
Voltage and Skyscraper, and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable
(as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the
unshaven villain in The Painted Desert), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis
(in Hell's House), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil
Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others.Higgins'
movie career spanned 18 years, having begun working on film crews in
1919. He died in Los Angeles at age 47.
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