{{short description|American film director}}
{{Infobox person | name = Howell Hansel | birth_date = 1860 | birth_place = Indiana, USA | death_date = November 5, {{death year and age|1917|1860}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York, USA | occupation = Actor, film director }}
'''Howell Hansel''' (1860 – 1917), was an American film director. He directed 26 films between 1913 and 1917.
== Biography == Hansel was born in Indiana, and began his career as a stage actor on the East Coast. Eventually he gave up his acting career<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/431141021/?terms=%22howell+hansel%22|title=25 Mar 1917, 41 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-03}}</ref> to join Thanhauser as a film director; he'd also direct films for Famous Players–Lasky.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/88281546/?terms=%22howell+hansel%22|title=6 Nov 1917, Page 7 - The Sun at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-03}}</ref>
His output slowed toward the end of his life as he struggled with a prolonged illness. He died in Manhattan in 1917, leaving behind a wife and a daughter.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected filmography ==
* ''The Long Trail'' (1917) * ''The Deemster'' (1917) * ''The Goad of Jealousy'' (1916) (short) * ''Weighed in the Balance'' (1916) (short) * ''The Lost Paradise'' (1916) (short) * ''A Trial of Souls'' (1916) (short) * ''Beyond Recall'' (1916) (short) * ''Truth Crushed to Earth'' (1916) (short) * ''Sold Out'' (1916) (short) * ''The Tight Rein'' (1916) (short) * ''Tillie's Tomato Surprise'' (1916) * ''Horrible Hyde'' (1915) (short) * ''Colonel Carter of Cartersville'' (1915) * ''The Road o' Strife'' (1915) * ''A Man of Iron'' (1915) (short) * ''A Hatful of Trouble'' (1914) (short) * ''Zudora'' (1914) * ''The Million Dollar Mystery'' (1914) * ''A Dog of Flanders'' (1914) * ''A Woman's Loyalty'' (1914) * ''Ben Bolt'' (1913)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0360617|name=Howell Hansel}}
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