The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Novelist and playwright                          

Selected Works:

Kiss of Death
Casino Royale - uncredited
Circus World
7 Faces of Dr. Lao - uncredited
Cleopatra - uncredited
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Mutiny on the Bounty - uncredited
A Walk on the Wild Side - uncredited
North to Alaska - uncredited
John Paul Jones - uncredited
The Gun Runners - uncredited
Queen of Outer Space
Legend of the Lost
A Farewell to Arms
Miracle in the Rain
The Iron Petticoat
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - uncredited
Trapeze - uncredited
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - uncredited
The Indian Fighter
The Man with the Golden Arm - uncredited
Guys and Dolls - uncredited
Living It Up
Ulisse
Light's Diamond Jubilee - television
Terminal Station - uncredited
Angel Face - uncredited
Hans Christian Andersen - uncredited
Monkey Business
Actors and Sin - also directed and produced
The Wild Heart - uncredited
The Thing from Another World - uncredited
The Secret of Convict Lake - uncredited
Strangers on a Train - uncredited
September Affair - uncredited
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Edge of Doom - uncredited
Perfect Strangers
Love Happy - uncredited
The Inspector General - uncredited
Whirlpool
Roseanna McCoy - uncredited
Big Jack - uncredited
Portrait of Jennie - uncredited
Cry of the City - uncredited
Rope - uncredited
The Miracle of the Bells
Dishonored Lady - uncredited
Her Husband's Affairs
The Paradine Case - uncredited
Ride the Pink Horse
Kiss of Death
Duel in the Sun - uncredited
Notorious
Specter of the Rose - also directed and produced
Gilda - uncredited
Cornered - uncredited
Spellbound
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Lifeboat - uncredited
The Outlaw - uncredited
China Girl
Journey Into Fear - uncredited
The Black Swan
Ten Gentlemen from West Point - uncredited
Roxie Hart - uncredited
Lydia
The Mad Doctor - uncredited
Comrade X
Second Chorus - uncredited
Angels Over Broadway - also directed and produced
Foreign Correspondent - final scene-uncredited
The Shop Around the Corner - uncredited
His Girl Friday
I Take This Woman - uncredited
Gone with the Wind - uncredited
At the Circus - uncredited
Lady of the Tropics
It's a Wonderful World
Wuthering Heights
Let Freedom Ring
Stagecoach - uncredited
Gunga Din
Angels with Dirty Faces - uncredited
The Goldwyn Follies
Nothing Sacred
The Hurricane - uncredited
The Prisoner of Zenda - uncredited
Woman Chases Man - uncredited
King of Gamblers - uncredited
A Star Is Born - uncredited
Soak the Rich - also directed
The Scoundrel - also directed
Spring Tonic
Barbary Coast
Once in a Blue Moon - also directed
The Florentine Dagger
The President Vanishes - uncredited
Crime Without Passion - also directed
Shoot the Works
Twentieth Century - uncredited
Upperworld
Viva Villa!
Riptide - uncredited
Queen Christina - uncredited
Design for Living
Turn Back the Clock
Topaze
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Back Street - uncredited
Rasputin and the Empress - uncredited
Million Dollar Legs - uncredited
Scarface
The Beast of the City - uncredited
The Unholy Garden
The Sin of Madelon Claudet - uncredited
Monkey Business - uncredited
Homicide Squad - uncredited
Quick Millions - uncredited
Le Spectre vert
Roadhouse Nights
Street of Chance - uncredited
The Unholy Night
The Great Gabbo
The Big Noise
American Beauty - uncredited
Underworld
The New Klondike - uncredited

Books:

1001 Afternoons in Chicago - 1922
Fantazius Mallare, a Mysterious Oat - 1922
The Florentine Dagger - 1923
Kingdom of Evil - 1924
Broken Necks - 1926
Count Bruga - 1926
The Book of Miracles - 1939
1001 Afternoons in Chicagos - 1941
The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht - 1945
Perfidy - 1962
Perfidy - 1961
Concerning a Woman of Sin - 1964
Gaily, Gaily, Signet - 1963
A Child of the Century - 1954
The Front Page - 1998
A Guide for the Bedevilled - 1944
Incorporated - 1999
The Champion From Far Away - 1931
Actor's Blood - 1936
A Treasury Of Ben Hecht: Collected Stories And Other Writings - 1959, anthology
Erik Dorn
A Jew in Love
I Hate Actors!
1001 Afternoons in New York
The Sensualists
Winkelberg
Miracle in the Rain
Letters From Bohemia
Gargoyles
The Egoist.