Howard Higgin

From Wikipedia Howard Higgin February 15 1891 December 16 1938 was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s Higgins 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 writerdirector of Gables screen breakthrough role as the unshaven villain in The Painted Desert Carole Lombard Bette Davis in Hells House Pat OBrien Alan Hale Sr Blanche Sweet Basil Rathbone Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke among many others Higgins movie career spanned 38 years having begun working on film crews in 1919 He died in Los Angeles at age 47