Like so many people who entered the American entertainment industry at the turn of the century, Howard Estabrook trained himself to be a jack-of-all-trades. At various junctures he was an actor, stage director, film director, and playwright before zeroing in on a long screenwriting career. Estabrook entered films in 1914 as an action player in such fast-moving epics as Officer 666 (1914) and The Mysteries of Myra (1916). He had the strong-chinned good looks of a college sports hero and was a reasonably persuasive actor, but he soon found more satisfaction in writing scripts than in reading them. Estabrook's writing skills were well-represented for over three decades, from 1928's Port of Missing Girls to 1959's The Big Fisherman. He won an Academy award for his work on the 1931 western Cimarron; he also occasionally functioned as a producer at Paramount. In 1944, Howard Estabrook returned to directing for the medium-budget Heavenly Days (1944), which some fans consider the best film-vehicle of the popular radio team Fibber McGee and Molly.
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The Big Fisherman
Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Passion
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Lone Star
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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The Girl from Manhattan
Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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The Virginian
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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Dakota
Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Heavenly Days
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Human Comedy
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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International Lady
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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New Wine
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Wells Fargo
Associate Producer |
1937 | |||
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David Copperfield
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Orchids to You
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Way Down East
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Sweepings
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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The Bowery
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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The Devil's in Love
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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The Masquerader
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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A Bill of Divorcement
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Roar of the Dragon
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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The Conquerors
Screen Story |
1932 | |||
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Are These Our Children?
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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The Woman Between
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Woman Hungry
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Behind the Makeup
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Cimarron
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Double Cross Roads
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Hell's Angels
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Kismet
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Slightly Scarlet
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Street of Chance
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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The Bad Man
Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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She Goes to War
Screenwriter |
1929 | |||
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The Virginian
Screenwriter |
1929 | |||
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Dressed to Kill
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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Forgotten Faces
Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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The Four Feathers
Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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The Port of Missing Girls
Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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The Shopworn Angel
Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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Varsity
Screenwriter |
1928 | |||
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Play Safe
Supervisor/Manager |
1927 | |||
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The Adventurous Sex
Producer |
1925 | |||
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The Price of a Party
Presented by |
1924 | |||
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Give Becky a Chance
Director |
1917 | |||
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Highway of Hope
Director |
1917 | |||
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Four Feathers
Actor |
1915 |

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