Howard Estabrook
Writing
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 1931 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won Cimarron
- 1930 Best Writing Nominated Street of Chance
- — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Cimarron
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Howard Estabrook (born Howard Bolles, July 11, 1884 – July 16, 1978) was an American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter.
Born Howard Bolles in Detroit, Michigan, Howard Estabrook began his career in 1904 as a stage actor in New York. He made his film debut in 1914 during the silent era, and would go on to appear in several features including Four Feathers. Estabrook left films in 1916 for a try at the business world, but returned in 1921.
Estabrook took on executive positions with various studios, and eventually began producing films in 1924. He soon found his calling in screenwriting. He was responsible for several of what have come to be regarded as classics of Hollywood including Hell's Angels (1930) and Street of Chance (1930), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. The following year, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. In 1935, he (along with Hugh Walpole and Lenore J. Coffee) adapted the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield for the 1935 film version starring W. C. Fields and Lionel Barrymore.
Estabrook continued in his screenwriting career for three decades, as well as directing and producing films before his death on July 16, 1978 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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Filmography
Writing
38 credits
David Copperfield
Cimarron
Lone Star
Kismet
The Human Comedy
Cattle Queen of Montana
The Big Fisherman
Make Up
Forgotten Faces
Way Down East
International Lady
A Bill of Divorcement
The Bowery
The Woman Between
The Shopworn Angel
Maid of Salem
The Virginian
Double Cross Roads
Roar of the Dragon
The Devil's in Love
The Bad Man
She Goes to War
The Conquerors
Street of Chance
The Masquerader
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Sweepings
Slightly Scarlet
Heavenly Days
The Girl from Manhattan
The Four Feathers
New Wine
The Port of Missing Girls
Behind the Make-Up
Dressed to Kill
Woman Hungry
Varsity
Lopez, le bandit
Acting
13 credits
Hell's Angels
The Virginian
Passion
Dakota
The Corsican Brothers
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Butterfly
Four Feathers
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Officer 666
Kismet
Are These Our Children?
The Mysteries of Myra
Directing
5 credits
Producing
4 credits
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