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Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. For his consistently high quality of ...
Hal B. Wallis (1898-1986) Hal B. Wallis was a movie producer in Hollywood who enjoyed a long career from 1933 onwards. His early career was with Warner Brothers and parallelled the early years of Hollywood's Golden Age and he then became an independent producer in 1944, with unabated success. He was associated with many of the most popular ...
Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars. Hal Wallis. : Bernard F. Dick. University Press of Kentucky, Oct 17, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 334 pages. Hal Wallis (1898-1986) might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced— Casablanca, Jezebel, Now, Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit ...
Oct 9, 1986 · Hal B. Wallis, who produced, co-produced or supervised the production of more than 400 films during a career that spanned half a century, has died at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Mr. Wallis ...
Warner Bros. story editor Irene Diamond convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942. Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write the script. However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942.
Added: May 15, 1999. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 5455. Source citation. Motion Picture Producer, Studio Executive. Among the most influential and successful producers in Hollywood history, he is responsible for such classic pictures as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1941) and Casablanca (1942) in addition to many more.
Hal B.Wallis was one of the most important movie producers from the Golden Age of Hollywood filmmaking of the 1930s and 1940s. On one classic Warner Bros. movie after another Hal B.Wallis' name is listed under the title: Warner's studio boss, Jack L. Warner, was the brother in charge of the west coast studio, but surely his right-hand man, Hal ...
