Kenneth Neil Hawks Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Kenneth Neil Hawks (August 12, 1898 in Goshen, Indiana – January 2, 1930 in Santa Monica, California) was an American film director and producer.Hawks served in the United States Army Air Service during World War I. He then graduated from Yale University in 1919. He soon moved to Hollywood, California with brother Howard Hawks; he was also the brother of producer William Hawks. He became a writer, editor and supervisor at Fox Films Corporation in 1926. He began directing films for Fox in 1929. He was supervising producer of the Fox documentary film True Heaven (1929). On January 2, 1930 while directing filming of aerial scenes for the film Such Men Are Dangerous he was killed in a plane crash over the Pacific Ocean along with 9 others: pilot Walter Ross Cook, cameraman George Eastman, assistant director Ben Frankel, assistant director Max Gold, Tom Harris, Harry Johannes, Otto Jordon, pilot Halleck Rouse, and cinematographer Conrad Wells (also known as Abraham Fried). The planes that crashed into each other were identical Stinson SM-1F Detroiters; sun glare was listed as probable cause.His body was recovered and after cremation his ashes were scattered over the site of his death.
On December 27, 1929, just six days before his death, he served as best man at his brother William's marriage to Bessie Love.
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Four Hollywood cameramen - George Eastman, Otto Jordan, Conrad Wells and Ben Frankel - were killed on the same day, making the same movie, when their camera planes collided and fell into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast while filming "Such Men Are Dangerous". Six others, including the film's director, were also killed.
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