Henry Hobart (March 22, 1888 – 1951) was an American film producer during the late silent and early sound eras in the motion picture era. Initially, he was president of Distinctive Productions, but later formed his own independent production company, Henry Hobart Productions. All three of the silent films he produced for his company were distributed by

First National Pictures First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the count ...

. In 1928, Hobart would go to work for First National, and then would move over to the newly formed

RKO Radio Pictures RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orphe ...

after the advent of talking pictures in 1929.

Filmography

(as per AFI's database)

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* * 1888 births 1951 deaths Film producers from New York (state) People from Brooklyn {{US-film-producer-stub