Kenneth Neil Hawks (August 12, 1898 – January 2, 1930) was an American film director and producer.
Hawks served in the United States Army Air Service during World War I.
He soon moved to Hollywood, California with brother Howard Hawks; He became a writer, editor and supervisor at Fox Films Corporation in 1926.
On January 2, 1930, while directing filming of aerial scenes for the film Such Men Are Dangerous, he was killed in a mid-air plane crash over the Pacific Ocean along with 9 others: pilot Walter Ross Cook, cameraman George Eastman, assistant director Ben Frankel, assistant director Max Gold, Tom Harris, Harry Johannes, Otho Jordan, pilot Halleck Rouse, and cinematographer Conrad Wells (also known as Abraham Fried).
Kenneth met actress Mary Astor in 1927; the couple married on February 26, 1928 at her home, Moorcrest.