- Four Hollywood cameramen - George Eastman, Otto Jordan, Conrad Wells and Ben Frankel - were killed on the same day, making the same movie, when their camera planes collided and fell into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast while filming "Such Men Are Dangerous". Six others, including the film's director, were also killed.
- Second cousin of Carole Lombard.
- Brother of Howard Hawks
- On December 27, 1929, just six days before his death, he served as best man at his brother William's marriage to Bessie Love.
- Cousin-in-law of William Powell, brother-in-law of Athole Shearer.
- One of his distant cousins, Elizabeth Ellen Robinson, was the mother of Mary Gish and grandmother of Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish.
- Cousin-in-law of Clark Gable, brother-in-law of Dee Hartford.
- Brother of William B. Hawks, brother-in-law of Bessie Love.
- Brother-in-law of Virginia Walker
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