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Hal B. Wallis

Film Producer / Executive Producer / Actor | * 09/13/1899 († 87, 10/05/1986) | Chicago, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; September 14, 1899 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best known 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, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. ()
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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 motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for Best Picture. In 1975, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. ...

Casablanca

13

1942 | 4.1/5 | 1h 42min
Drama, Romance / Love
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The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', a ...

True Grit

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1969 | 3.7/5 | 2h 8min
Western
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A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. ...

The Maltese Falcon

13

1941 | 3.9/5 | 1h 40min
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
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The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith. ...

The Sons of Katie Elder

Certification unknown

1965 | 3.6/5 | 2h 2min
Western
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Awards & Nominations for Hal B. Wallis

3x Academy Award for Best Picture
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Movies with Hal B. Wallis as Actor(7)

as Self (archive footage)2008 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self - Producer (archive footage)2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as himself1983 Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)1955 The Rose Tattoo
as himself1943 Show-Business at War
as Self (archive footage)1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Himself (uncredited)1935 A Dream Comes True

TV Shows/Series with Hal B. Wallis as Actor(1)

as Self (archive footage)2018 Elvis Presley: The Searcher

Movies with Hal B. Wallis as Crew(263)

Production/Producer1975 Rooster Cogburn
Production/Producer1973 Bequest to the Nation
Production/Producer1973 The Don Is Dead
Production/Producer1972 Follow Me!
Production/Producer1971 Red Sky at Morning
Production/Producer1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
Production/Producer1970 Norwood
Production/Producer1969 True Grit
Production/Producer1969 Anne of the Thousand Days
Production/Producer1968 5 Card Stud
Production/Producer1967 Easy Come, Easy Go
Production/Producer1967 Barefoot in the Park
Production/Producer1966 Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Production/Producer1965 The Sons of Katie Elder
Production/Producer1965 Boeing, Boeing
Production/Producer1964 Becket
Production/Producer1964 Roustabout
Production/Producer1963 Fun in Acapulco
Production/Producer1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
Production/Producer1962 Girls! Girls! Girls!
Production/Producer1961 Summer and Smoke
Production/Producer1961 All in a Night's Work
Production/Producer1961 Blue Hawaii
Production/Producer1960 Visit to a Small Planet
Production/Producer1960 G.I. Blues
Production/Producer1959 Career
Production/Producer1959 Don't Give Up the Ship
Production/Producer1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
Production/Producer1958 King Creole
Production/Producer1958 Hot Spell
Production/Producer1957 Wild Is the Wind
Production/Producer1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Production/Producer1957 The Sad Sack
Production/Producer1957 Loving You
Production/Producer1956 Hollywood or Bust
Production/Producer1956 The Rainmaker
Production/Producer1955 Artists and Models
Production/Producer1955 The Rose Tattoo
Production/Producer1954 About Mrs. Leslie
Production/Producer1954 3 Ring Circus
Production/Producer1953 Scared Stiff
Production/Producer1953 Cease Fire!
Production/Producer1953 Money from Home
Production/Producer1952 Sailor Beware
Production/Producer1952 The Stooge
Production/Producer1952 Jumping Jacks
Production/Producer1952 Come Back, Little Sheba
Production/Producer1951 Peking Express
Production/Producer1951 That's My Boy
Production/Producer1951 Red Mountain
Production/Producer1950 The Furies
Production/Producer1950 Dark City
Production/Producer1950 My Friend Irma Goes West
Production/Producer1950 Paid in Full
Production/Producer1950 September Affair
Production/Producer1949 My Friend Irma
Production/Producer1949 The Accused
Production/Producer1949 Rope of Sand
Production/Producer1949 The File on Thelma Jordon
Production/Producer1948 So Evil My Love
Production/Producer1948 Sorry, Wrong Number
Production/Producer1947 Desert Fury
Production/Producer1947 The Perfect Marriage
Production/Producer1947 I Walk Alone
Production/Producer1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Production/Producer1945 The Affairs of Susan
Production/Executive Producer1945 Rhapsody in Blue
Production/Producer1945 You Came Along
Production/Producer1945 Love Letters
Production/Producer1944 Passage to Marseille
Production/Producer1943 Watch on the Rhine
Production/Producer1943 This Is the Army
Production/Producer1943 Air Force
Production/Producer1943 Princess O'Rourke
Production/Executive Producer1943 The Constant Nymph
Production/Executive Producer1942 Juke Girl
Production/Executive Producer1942 Larceny, Inc.
Production/Producer1942 Casablanca
Production/Executive Producer1942 All Through the Night
Production/Producer1942 In This Our Life
Production/Producer1942 Now, Voyager
Production/Executive Producer1942 Kings Row
Production/Executive Producer1942 Captains of the Clouds
Production/Executive Producer1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Production/Executive Producer1942 The Male Animal
Production/Executive Producer1942 The Gay Sisters
Production/Executive Producer1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Production/Executive Producer1941 They Died with Their Boots On
Production/Executive Producer1941 The Strawberry Blonde
Production/Executive Producer1941 Footsteps in the Dark
Production/Executive Producer1941 Underground
Production/Executive Producer1941 The Maltese Falcon
Production/Executive Producer1941 The Great Lie
Production/Producer1941 Sergeant York
Production/Executive Producer1941 Affectionately Yours
Production/Executive Producer1941 Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Production/Executive Producer1941 Dive Bomber
Production/Executive Producer1941 Out of the Fog
Production/Executive Producer1941 High Sierra
Production/Executive Producer1941 Honeymoon for Three
Production/Executive Producer1941 Manpower
Production/Executive Producer1941 Four Mothers
Production/Executive Producer1941 Blues in the Night
Production/Executive Producer1940 A Fugitive from Justice
Production/Executive Producer1940 The Sea Hawk
Production/Executive Producer1940 Brother Orchid
Production/Executive Producer1940 Murder in the Air
Production/Executive Producer1940 They Drive by Night
Production/Executive Producer1940 The Fighting 69th
Production/Executive Producer1940 City for Conquest
Production/Executive Producer1940 The Letter
Production/Executive Producer1940 Gambling on the High Seas
Production/Producer1940 Saturday's Children
Production/Executive Producer1940 Castle on the Hudson
Production/Executive Producer1940 All This, and Heaven Too
Production/Executive Producer1940 Brother Rat and a Baby
Production/Executive Producer1940 Virginia City
Production/Executive Producer1940 No Time for Comedy
Production/Executive Producer1940 Knute Rockne All American
Production/Executive Producer1940 Santa Fe Trail
Production/Executive Producer1940 Tear Gas Squad
Production/Executive Producer1940 Torrid Zone
Production/Executive Producer1940 It All Came True
Production/Executive Producer1939 Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Production/Executive Producer1939 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Production/Executive Producer1939 No Place to Go
Production/Executive Producer1939 Each Dawn I Die
Production/Executive Producer1939 Dodge City
Production/Executive Producer1939 Dust Be My Destiny
Production/Executive Producer1939 Code of the Secret Service
Production/Executive Producer1939 Espionage Agent
Production/Executive Producer1939 Dark Victory
Production/Executive Producer1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Production/Executive Producer1939 Invisible Stripes
Production/Executive Producer1939 Sweepstakes Winner
Production/Executive Producer1939 The Old Maid
Production/Executive Producer1939 The Oklahoma Kid
Production/Executive Producer1939 Waterfront
Production/Executive Producer1939 The Return of Doctor X
Production/Executive Producer1939 Daughters Courageous
Production/Executive Producer1939 Angels Wash Their Faces
Production/Executive Producer1939 Four Wives
Production/Executive Producer1939 On Dress Parade
Production/Executive Producer1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Production/Executive Producer1939 Torchy Runs for Mayor
Production/Executive Producer1939 Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Production/Executive Producer1939 They Made Me a Criminal
Production/Producer1939 Yes, My Darling Daughter
Production/Executive Producer1939 Private Detective
Production/Executive Producer1939 The Adventures of Jane Arden
Production/Executive Producer1939 Smashing the Money Ring
Production/Executive Producer1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Production/Executive Producer1939 Juarez
Production/Executive Producer1939 We Are Not Alone
Production/Producer1939 The Roaring Twenties
Production/Executive Producer1939 Nancy Drew... Reporter
Production/Executive Producer1938 The Sisters
Production/Executive Producer1938 The Dawn Patrol
Production/Executive Producer1938 Penrod and His Twin Brother
Production/Executive Producer1938 Mystery House
Production/Executive Producer1938 Accidents Will Happen
Production/Executive Producer1938 Four's a Crowd
Production/Producer1938 Four Daughters
Production/Producer1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
Production/Executive Producer1938 Penrod's Double Trouble
Production/Executive Producer1938 A Slight Case of Murder
Production/Executive Producer1938 Jezebel
Production/Producer1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
Production/Executive Producer1938 Over the Wall
Production/Executive Producer1938 Blondes at Work
Production/Producer1938 Torchy Blane in Panama
Production/Executive Producer1938 Torchy Gets Her Man
Production/Executive Producer1938 Broadway Musketeers
Production/Executive Producer1938 Gold Is Where You Find It
Production/Executive Producer1938 Men Are Such Fools
Production/Executive Producer1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Production/Executive Producer1937 Black Legion
Production/Executive Producer1937 That Certain Woman
Production/Executive Producer1937 Melody for Two
Production/Executive Producer1937 Kid Galahad
Production/Executive Producer1937 The Cherokee Strip
Production/Executive Producer1937 Draegerman Courage
Production/Executive Producer1937 West Of Shanghai
Production/Executive Producer1937 Public Wedding
Production/Executive Producer1937 Slim
Production/Executive Producer1937 Talent Scout
Production/Executive Producer1937 Confession
Production/Producer1937 The Go-Getter
Production/Executive Producer1937 Marked Woman
Production/Executive Producer1937 Fly Away Baby
Production/Executive Producer1937 The Adventurous Blonde
Production/Executive Producer1937 Love Is on the Air
Production/Executive Producer1937 Another Dawn
Production/Executive Producer1937 Tovarich
Production/Producer1937 It's Love I'm After
Production/Executive Producer1937 Stolen Holiday
Production/Executive Producer1937 That Man's Here Again
Production/Producer1937 The Perfect Specimen
Production/Executive Producer1937 Once a Doctor
Production/Executive Producer1937 Green Light
Production/Executive Producer1936 Bengal Tiger
Production/Executive Producer1936 Cain and Mabel
Production/Executive Producer1936 Jailbreak
Production/Executive Producer1936 Bullets or Ballots
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur
Production/Executive Producer1936 California Mail
Production/Executive Producer1936 China Clipper
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade
Production/Executive Producer1936 Stage Struck
Production/Executive Producer1936 Colleen
Production/Executive Producer1936 Murder by an Aristocrat
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Big Noise
Production/Executive Producer1936 Earthworm Tractors
Production/Executive Producer1936 Trailin' West
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Golden Arrow
Production/Executive Producer1936 Road Gang
Production/Executive Producer1936 I Married a Doctor
Production/Executive Producer1936 Hearts Divided
Production/Executive Producer1936 Down the Stretch
Production/Executive Producer1936 Fugitive in the Sky
Production/Executive Producer1936 Love Begins at Twenty
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Petrified Forest
Production/Executive Producer1936 Two Against the World
Production/Executive Producer1936 The Green Pastures
Production/Executive Producer1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Production/Executive Producer1935 'G' Men
Production/Executive Producer1935 Black Fury
Production/Executive Producer1935 Bordertown
Production/Executive Producer1935 Dangerous
Production/Executive Producer1935 Captain Blood
Production/Executive Producer1935 Miss Pacific Fleet
Production/Producer1935 Devil Dogs of the Air
Production/Executive Producer1934 Jimmy the Gent
Production/Executive Producer1934 The St. Louis Kid
Production/Executive Producer1934 Dark Hazard
Production/Executive Producer1934 Hi, Nellie!
Production/Executive Producer1934 The Man with Two Faces
Production/Executive Producer1934 Upperworld
Production/Producer1934 Journal of a Crime
Production/Executive Producer1934 Dames
Production/Executive Producer1934 Here Comes the Navy
Production/Executive Producer1934 The Merry Frinks
Production/Executive Producer1933 Ever in My Heart
Production/Producer1933 Heroes for Sale
Production/Producer1933 Central Airport
Production/Producer1933 The Mind Reader
Production/Producer1933 The Narrow Corner
Production/Producer1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum
Production/Producer1932 Miss Pinkerton
Production/Producer1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Production/Producer1932 Scarlet Dawn
Production/Producer1932 Lawyer Man
Production/Producer1932 They Call It Sin
Production/Executive Producer1932 Doctor X
Production/Producer1932 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Production/Producer1932 Street of Women
Production/Supervising Producer1932 Two Seconds
Production/Producer1932 Man Wanted
Production/Producer1932 One Way Passage
Production/Producer1932 The Match King
Production/Executive Producer1931 Blonde Crazy
Production/Producer1931 Little Caesar
Production/Producer1931 Five Star Final

Full Name: Hal Wallis
Born: Wednesday, 09/13 1899 (September) in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 10/05 1986 (October) in Rancho Mirage (aged: 87)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Louise Fazenda, Martha Hyer
Children: Brent Wallis
Father: Jacob Wallis
Mother: Eva Wallis
Other names for Hal B. Wallis (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hal Wallis"
"Harold Brent Wallis"
Hal B. Wallis frequently works together with these people:
Jack L. Warner (126x, Crew)
Leo F. Forbstein (81x, Crew)
Orry-Kelly (72x, Crew)
Perc Westmore (65x, Crew)
Edith Head (57x, Crew)
Jack Mower (55x, Actor)
Warren Low (50x, Crew)
Sam Comer (48x, Crew)
Wally Westmore (46x, Crew)
Max Steiner (43x, Crew)
Bryan Foy (42x, Crew)
Thom Zimny (3x, Crew)
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