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Faulkner Filmography

Films for which Faulkner received an official screen credit:

Today We Live

(MGM, 1933), 113 minutes

Director: Howard Hawks

Producer: Howard Hawks

Screenplay: Edith Fitzgerald, Dwight Taylor, and William Faulkner

(based on the Faulkner story "Turn About")

Cinematography: Oliver T. Marsh

Cast:

Joan Crawford (Diana)

Gary Cooper (Bogard)

Robert Young (Claude)

Franchot Tone (Ronnie)

Roscoe Karns (McGinnis)

The Road to Glory

(Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936), 95 minutes

Director: Howard Hawks

Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay: Joel Sayre and William Faulkner
(based on Raymond Bernard's film Les Croix de Bois)

Cinematography: Gregg Toland

Music: Louis Silvers

Cast:
Fredric March (Lt. Michel Denet)
Warner Baxter (Capt. Paul Laroche)
Lionel Barrymore (Papa Laroche)
June Lang (Monique)
Gregory Ratoff (Bouffiou)

Slave Ship

(Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937), 92 minutes

Director: Tay Garnett

Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay: Sam Hellman, Lamar Trotti, Gladys Lehman, and William Faulkner
(based on the novel The Last Slaver by George S. King)

Music: Alfred Newman

Cinematography: Ernest Palmer

Cast:
Warner Baxter (Jim Lovett)
Wallace Beery (Jack Thompson)
Elizabeth Allan (Nancy Marlowe)
Mickey Rooney (Swifty)
George Sanders (Lefty)

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

(Warner Brothers, 1944), 100 minutes

 

Director: Howard Hawks

Producer: Howard Hawks

Screenplay: Jules Furthman and William Faulkner
(based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway)

Cinematography: Sidney Hickox

Music: Leo Forbstein

Cast
Humphrey Bogart (Harry Morgan)
Walter Brennan (Eddie)
Lauren Bacall (Marie Brown)
Hoagy Carmichael (Crickett)
Marcel Dalio (Frenchy Gerard)

 

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

(Warner Brothers, 1946), 114 minutes

 

Director: Howard Hawks

Producer: Howard Hawks

Screenplay: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman
(based on the novel by Raymond Chandler)

Cinematography: Sidney Hickox

Music: Max Steiner

Cast:
Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe)
Lauren Bacall (Vivian)
John Ridgely (Eddie Mars)
Elisha Cook, Jr. (Jones)
Martha Vickers (Carmen)
Bob Steele (Canino)
Dorothy Malone (Bookshop Girl)

Land of the Pharaohs

(Warner Brothers, 1955), 101 minutes

Director: Howard Hawks

Producers: Howard Hawks, Arthur Siteman

Screenplay: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, and Harold Jack Bloom

Cinematography: Lee Garmes and Russell Harlan (color/CinemaScope)

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Cast:
Jack Hawkins (Cheops the Pharaoh)
Joan Collins (Princess Nellifer)
Dewey Martin (Senta)
Sydney Chaplin (Treneh)

Films Faulkner helped write but for which he received no official credit:

Gunga Din

(RKO, 1939), 117 minutes

Director: George Stevens

Producer: George Stevens

Screenwriter: Fred Guiol

based on the story by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, William Faulkner from the poem by Rudyard Kipling

Cinematographer: Joseph August

Editor: Henry Berman, John Lockert

Composer: Alfred Newman

Art director: Van Nest Polglase, Perry Ferguson

Set designer: Darrell Silvera

Special effects: Vernon L. Walker

Costumes: Edward Stevenson

Cast:
Cary Grant (Sgt. Cutter)
Victor McLaglen (Sgt. MacChesney)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (Sgt. Ballantine)
Sam Jaffe (Gunga Din)
Eduardo Ciannelli (Guru)
Joan Fontaine (Emmy Stebbins)
Montagu Love (Col. Weed)
Robert Coote (Higginbotham)
Abner Biberman (Chota)
Lumsden Hare (Maj. Mitchell)
Cecil Kellaway (Mr. Stebbins)
Reginald Sheffield (Journalist)
Ann Evers, Audrey Manners, Fay McKenzie (Girls at Party)
Roland Varno (Lt. Markham)
Charles Bennett (Telegraph Operator)
Leslie Sketchley (Corporal)
Frank Levya (Native Merchant)
George Ducount, Jamiel Hasson, George Regas (Thug Chieftains)
Bryant Fryer (Scotch Sergeant)
Lal Chand Mehra (Jadoo)
Clive Morgan (Lancer Captain)
Olin Francis (Fulad)

Drums Along the Mohawk

(20th Century Fox, 1939), 103 minutes

 

Director: John Ford

Producer: Raymond Griffith

Executive Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Screenplay: Sonya Levien, Lamar Trotti

(Based on the novel by Walter D. Edmonds)

Cinematography: Bert Glennon, Ray Rennahan

Music: Alfred Newman

Cast
Claudette Colbert (Lana Martin)
Henry Fonda (Gilbert Martin)
Edna May Oliver (Mrs. McKlennar)
Eddie Collins (Christian Reall)
John Carradine (Caldwell)
Dorris Bowdon (Mary Reall)
Jessie Ralph (Mrs. Weaver)
Arthur Shields (Reverend Rosenkrantz)
Robert Lowery (John Weaver)
Roger Imhof (General Nicholas Herkimer)
Francis Ford (Joe Boleo)
Ward Bond (Adam Helmer)
Kay Linaker (Mrs. DeMooth)
Russell Simpson (Dr. Perry)
Chief Big Tree (Blue Back)
Spencer Charters (Landlord)
Si Jenks (Jacob Small)
Clara Blandick (Mrs. Borst)
Robert Greig (Mr. Borst)
Mae Marsh (Pioneer Woman)
Paul McVey (Captain Mark Demooth)
Jack Pennick (Amos Hartman)

Air Force

(Warner Brothers, 1943), 124 minutes

 

Director: Howard Hawks

Producers:

Screenplay: Dudley Nichols

Cinematography: James Wong Howe

Cast:
John Garfield (Aerial Gunner Winocki)
George Tobias (Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg)
Gig Young (Co-pilot Williams)
John Ridgely (Captain Quincannon)
Arthur Kennedy (Bombardier McMartins)
Harry Carey (Crew Chief White)
Charles Drake (the navigator)
James Brown (Rader)
Edward S. Brophy
Faye Emerson
Dorothy Peterson
Addison Richards
Ann Doran
Stanley Ridges
Willard Robertson
Moroni Olsen

Background to Danger

(Warner Brothers, 1943), 80 minutes

 

Director: Raoul Walsh

Producer: Jerry Wald

Cast Includes:
George Raft
Sydney Greenstreet
Osa Massen
Brenda Marshall
Peter Lorre
Kurt Katch

Northern Pursuit

(Warner Brothers, 1943), 94 minutes

 

Director: Raoul Walsh

Producer: Jack Chertok

Screenplay: Frank Gruber, Alvah Bessie

Cinematography: Sidney Hickox

Music: Adolph Deutsch

Film Editing: Jack Killifer

Cast:
Errol Flynn (Cpl. Steve Wagner)
Julie Bishop (Laura McBain)
John Ridgely
Gene Lockhart
Tom Tully
Bernard Nedell
Warren Douglas
Monte Blue
Alec Craig
Helmut Dantine
Russell Hicks

God Is My Co-Pilot

(Warner Brothers, 1945), 90 minutes

 

Director: Robert Florey

Producer: Robert Buckner

Screenplay: Abem Finkel and Peter Milne
(Based on the novel by Robert L. Scott

Cinematography: Sidney Hickox

Music: Franz Waxman

Film Editing: Folmer Blangsted

Cast:
Phyllis Adair (American Female Prisoner)
Philip Ahn (Japanese Announcer)
Joel Allen (Lieutenant Doug Sharpe)
Murray Alper (Sergeant Altonen)
Paul Brooke (Lieutenant Jack Horner)
Clark 'Buddy' Burroughs (Robert Scott as a Young Boy)
William Challee (A.V.G. Groundman)
Frances Chan (Dancer)
Dane Clark (Johnny Petach)
Sanders Clark (British Officer Prisoner)
George Cleveland (Father of Catherine Scott)
Warren Douglas (Bob Neale)
Dan Dowling (Frank Schiel)
James Flavin (Major)
William Forrest (Doctor Reynolds)
Art Foster (American Pilot)
Joel Friedkin (Newspaper Editor)
Paul Fung (General Kitcheburo)
Alan Hale (Big Mike Harrigan)
Andrea King (Catherine Scott)
Richard Loo (Tokyo Joe)
Raymond Massey (Gen. Claire L. Chennault)
Don McGuire (A.V.G. Groundman)
John Miles (Lieutenant Alabama Wilson)
Dennis Morgan (Col. Robert L. Scott)
Clarence Muse (Prank)
Gigi Perreau (Robin Lee)
John Ridgely (Tex Hill)
Stanley Ridges (Colonel Meriam Cooper)
Bernard Sell (Gil Bright)
Charles Smith (Private Motley)
Tom Steele (American Pilot)
Craig Stevens (Ed Rector)
Mark Stevens (Sergeant Baldridge)
Frank Tang (Chinese Captain)
Dale Van Sickel (American Pilot)
Minor Watson (Caleb V. Haynes)

Mildred Pierce

(Warner Brothers, 1945), 111 minutes

 

Director: Michael Curtiz

Producer: Jerry Wald

Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall
(Based on the novel by James M. Cain)

Cinematography: Ernest Haller

Music: Max Steiner

Film Editing: David Weisbart

Cast:
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Jack Carson (Wally Fay)
Zachary Scott (Monte Beragon)
Eve Arden (Ida)
Ann Blyth (Veda Pierce)
Bruce Bennett (Bert Pierce)
Lee Patrick (Maggie Biederhof)
Moroni Olsen (Inspector Peterson)
Veda Ann Borg (Miriam Ellis)
George Tobias (Mr. Chris)
Jo Ann Marlowe (Kay Pierce)
Larry Rio (Reporter)
Barbara Brown (Mrs. Forrester)
Charles Trowbridge (Mr. Williams)
John Compton (Ted Forrester)
Butterfly McQueen (Lottie)
Garry Owen (Policeman)
Clancy Cooper (Policeman)
Tom Dillon (Policeman)
Charles Jordan (Policeman)
James Flavin (Detective)
Jack O'Connor (Detective)
George Anderson (Peterson's Assistant)
Johnny Walsh (Delivery Man)
Robert Arthur (I) (High School Boy)
Joyce Compton (Waitress)
Lynn Baggett (Waitress)
Marion Lessing (Waitress)
Doria Caron (Waitress)
Marjorie Kane (Waitress)
Elyse Brown (Waitress)
Jimmy Lono (Houseboy)
Mary Servoss (Nurse)
Manart Kipper (Dr. Gale)
David Cota (Pancho)
George Meader (Man)
Harold Miller (Man)
Robert Lorraine (Man)
Joan Wardley (Wife)
Don Grant (Bartender)
Chester Clute (Mr. Jones)
Robert Evans (I) (Sailor)
Wallis Clark (Wally's Lawyer)
Perk Lazello (Attorney's Clerk)
Angela Green (Party Guest)
Betty Alexander (Party Guest)
Ramsay Ames (Party Guest)
Helen Pender (Party Guest)
Joan Winfield (Piano)
John Christian (Singing Teacher)
Leah Baird (Police Matron)
Paul Panzer (Waiter)
William Alcorn (Soldier)
John Sheridan (Clerk)
Dick Kipling (Personnel Man)
Wheaton Chambers (Personnel Man)
William Ruhl (Personnel Man)
Mary Ellen Meyran (Woman)
Jean Lorraine (Woman)

The Southerner

(United Artists, 1945), 91 minutes

 

Director: Jean Renoir

Producers: David Loew, Robert Hakim

Screenplay: Jean Renoir, Hugo Butler
(Based on the book Hold Autumn in Your Hand, by George Sessions Perry

Cinematography:

Music: Werner Janssen

Cast:
Zachary Scott (Sam Tucker)
Charles Kemper (Tim)
Betty Field
Percy Kilbride
Blanche Yurka
J. Carrol Naish
Norman Lloyd
Beulah Bondi

Deep Valley

(Warner Brothers, 1947), 104 minutes

 

Director: Jean Negulesco

Producer: Henry Blanke

Screenplay: Stephen Morehouse Avery, Salka Viertel
(Based on the novel by Dan Totheroh

Cinematography: Ted D. McCord

Music: Max Steiner

Film Editing: Owen Marks

Cast:
Ida Lupino (Libby Saul) Wayne Morris (Jeff Barker)
Fay Bainter (Ellie Saul)
Henry Hull (Cliff Saul)
Willard Robertson (Sheriff Akers)

Adventures of Don Juan

(Warner Brothers, 1948), 110 minutes

 

Director: Vincent Sherman

Producer: Jerry Wald

Screenplay: George Oppenheimer, Harry Kurnitz

Cast:
Errol Flynn
Viveca Lindfors
Romney Brent
Ann Rutherford
Alan Hale
Robert Warwick
Robert Douglas
Helen Westcott
Raymond Burr
Una O'Connor
Fortunio Bonanova
Monte Blue