Harry Behn

Harry Behn (September 24, 1898 – September 6, 1973) was an American former screenwriter.

Harry Behn
Behn, c. 1970
Born	(1898-09-24)September 24, 1898 McCabe, Arizona, United States
Died	September 6, 1973(1973-09-06) (aged 74) Seville, Spain
Alma mater	Harvard University
Spouse	Alice Lawrence ​ (m. 1905)​
Children	3

He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a number of screenplays, including the war film The Big Parade in 1925, and Hell's Angels. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922. Behn retired from screenwriting in the 1930s; he worked as a creative writing professor at the University of Arizona from 1938 to 1947 and co-founded the University of Arizona Press; he would later move to Connecticut and transition to children's literature. He died in Seville in 1973 during a trip.^[1][2] His son, Peter Behn was cast as young Thumper in the film Bambi.^[3]

Filmography

• The Big Parade (1925)
• Proud Flesh (1925), with Agnes Christine Johnson
• La Bohème (1926), with Ray Doyle
• The Crowd (1928), with King Vidor and John V.A. Weaver
• The Racket (1928), with Del Andrews
• Frozen River (1929)
• Sin Sister (1929), with Andrew Bennison
• Hell's Angels (1930), with Howard Estabrook
• Secret of the Chateau (1934), with Richard Thorpe

Bibliography

• Siesta (poetry), Golden Bough, 1937
• All Kinds of Time, Harcourt, 1950.
• Rhymes of the Times, under the pen name Jim Hill, published privately, 1950.
• Windy Morning, Harcourt, 1953.
• The House beyond the Meadow, Pantheon, 1955.
• The Wizard in the Well, Harcourt, 1956.
• Chinese Proverbs from Olden Times, Peter Pauper, 1956.
• (Translator and illustrator) Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, Peter Pauper, 1957.
• The Painted Cave, Harcourt, 1957.
• Timmy's Search, Seabury, 1958.
• The Two Uncles of Pablo, Harcourt, 1959.

• (Translator) 300 Classic Haiku, Peter Pauper, 1962.
• (Translator, along with Peter Beilenson) Haiku Harvest: Japanese haiku. Series IV, Peter Pauper, 1962.
• The Faraway Lurs, World Publishing, 1963.
• (Translator) Cricket Songs: Japanese haiku, Harcourt, 1964.
• Omen of the Birds, World Publishing, 1964.
• The Golden Hive, Harcourt, 1957–1966.
• Chrysalis: Concerning Children and Poetry, Harcourt, 1949–1968.
• What a Beautiful Noise, World Publishing, 1970.
• (Translator) More Cricket Songs: Japanese haiku, Harcourt, 1971.
• Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Poems and Pictures, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Harcourt, 1949–1984.
• Trees: A Poem, illustrated by James Endicott, H. Holt (New York, NY), 1992.
• Halloween, illustrated by Greg Couch, North-South (New York, NY), 2003.
• The kite (Missing date).

Behn's translations of haiku provided the texts for two works by Norman Dinerstein:

• Cricket Songs for unison children's chorus and piano (1967)^[4]
• Frogs for SATB chorus (1977)^[5]