{{Short description|British documentarian (1950–2004)}} {{for|the English footballer|Arthur Howes (footballer)}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox director | name = Arthur Joseph Christopher Howes | birth_date = {{birth date|1950|7|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Gibraltar, United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|11|29|1950|7|15|df=y}} | death_place = London, United Kingdom | notable_works = {{ubl| * ''Kafi's Story'' (1989) * ''Nuba Conversations'' (2000) * ''Benjamin and His Brother'' (2002) }} }} '''Arthur Howes''' (15 July 1950 – 29 November 2004) was a British documentary film maker and teacher.
==Life== Howes was born in Gibraltar on 15 July 1950, and moved to London as a teenager.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1478456/Arthur-Howes.html |title=Arthur Howes |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 December 2004 |accessdate=10 June 2015}}</ref> He was married to Amy Hardie and had one son. He died from lung cancer in London on 29 November 2004, aged 54.<ref name=guardian/>
==Career== Howes studied teaching, then film-making at the Polytechnic of Central London.<ref name=guardian>{{cite web|last=Geiger|first=Jeffrey|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/dec/07/broadcasting.guardianobituaries |title=Arthur Howes |website=The Guardian |date=7 December 2004 |accessdate=10 June 2015}}</ref> He went on to have a long career in documentary film-making and was particularly known for a trilogy about the Sudanese civil war.<ref name=independent>{{cite web|last=Turner|first=Jenny |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/arthur-howes-6156351.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518100009/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/arthur-howes-6156351.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 May 2015 |title=Arthur Howes Documentary film-maker in Sudan |language=Dutch |website=The Independent |date=8 December 2004 |accessdate=10 June 2015}}</ref> He also taught during his career at University of Essex and the London College of Printing.<ref name=guardian/> At this time of his death he was working on a film ''Bacchanalias Bahianas 1–5'' which was left unfinished. He had worked on this film in Brazil and it focussed on beach culture in Bahia.<ref name=independent/>
==Sudanese films== *''Kafi's Story'' (1989) *''Nuba Conversations'' (2000) *''Benjamin and his Brother'' (2002)
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