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J.G. Hawks
editor, script_department, writer
- Birth name:
- John Gerald Hawks
- Born:
- 1874-10-13, San Francisco, California, USA
- Died:
- 1940-04-10, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- editor, script_department, writer
Biography
A fog-cooled October morning in 1874 welcomed J.G. Hawks to San Francisco, where cable cars still clanged up Nob Hill and the Gold Rush echo lingered in salty air. From that Pacific vantage he sharpened words like sail-maker’s knives, cutting a path through the roaring-twenties silent-film world. Between clattering typewriter keys he conjured swashbuckling galleons for The Sea Hawk (1924), salt-stiff sails for Breed of the Sea (1926), and carnival shadows for The Charlatan (1929). Three decades after his birth-city shook itself awake, he closed his final script in sun-baked Los Angeles on 10 April 1940, leaving ink-soaked reels to do the talking.
