Brian Hooker

Brian Hooker was born on Nov 02, 1880 in USA. Brian Hooker's big-screen debut came with The Vagabond King directed by Ludwig Berger in 1930. Brian Hooker is known for Chinatown directed by Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson stars as J.J. Gittes and Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray. The upcoming new movie Brian Hooker plays is Chinatown which will be released on Jun 20, 1974.

Lyricist ("Song of the Vagabonds", "Only a Rose"), author and educator, educated at Yale University (BA, MA), and who became the assistant professor of English at Columbia University between 1903 and 1905, a rhetoric instructor at Yale University between 1905 and 1909, and a lecturer at the Columbia extension. He was literary editor at the New York Sun in 1917. His Broadway stage scores include "The Vagabond King", "June Love", and "Marjolaine", and he was the librettist for "Through the Years". He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborators included Rudolf Friml and Hugo Felix, and his other popular-song compositions include "Give Me One Hour", "Huguette Waltz", "Love Me Tonight", "Regimental Song", "Some Day", and "Tomorrow".