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Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E. (14 September 1899 – 5 October 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American
United States

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 motion picture
Film

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 producer
Film producer

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.

as Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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, California
California

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, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 in 1923.

Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners.






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Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E. (14 September 1899 – 5 October 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
.

Career

Born as Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 in 1923.

Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. In a career
Career

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 that spanned more than fifty years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies.

Among the many significant movies he produced was Casablanca
Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
, one of the most honored movies in Hollywood history, as well as True Grit
True Grit

True Grit is a 1969 in film Western directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne as United States Marshals Service Rooster Cogburn . The film is adapted from the 1968 novel, True Grit , by Charles Portis....
, for which John Wayne
John Wayne

John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
 won the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 of 1969. Wallis left Warner Bros. in 1944, after a clash with Jack Warner over Warner's acceptance of the Best Picture Oscar to Casablanca, to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success both commercially and critically. Among his financial hits were the Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
 and Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
 comedies, and several of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
's movies.

Hal Wallis received sixteen Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 nominations for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
, winning for Casablanca in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the 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
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

The Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures is an annual award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Golden Globe Award ceremonies in Hollywood, California....
 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

Marriages

Hal Wallis was married twice, to actress Louise Fazenda
Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda was an United States film actor, appearing chiefly in silent film comedy films....
 and to actress Martha Hyer
Martha Hyer

Martha Hyer is an United States actress.Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in Thunder Mountain. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946....
 (1966-1986).

Death

He died in Rancho Mirage, California
Rancho Mirage, California

Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, California, United States. The population was 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal population can exceed 20,000....
, aged 87. He is interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
.

He is portrayed by Bill Lake in the 2002 CBS TV movie Martin and Lewis.

Selected filmography

  • Little Caesar
    Little Caesar

    Little Caesar may refer to:* Little Caesar , a 1929 novel by William R. Burnett** Little Caesar , a 1931 film based on the novel* Little Caesar , a hard rock band...
     (1931
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    Events...
    )
  • Central Airport
    Central Airport (film)

    Central Airport is a film starring Richard Barthelmess and Sally Eilers. John Wayne had an unbilled part, as a co-pilot, and this film features his first on-screen death....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    )
  • The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest

    The Petrified Forest is a predecessor to film noir, with an original screenplay by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon derived from the play by Robert E....
     (1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Kid Galahad
    Kid Galahad (1937 film)

    Kid Galahad is a 1937 in film prizefighter film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz....
     (1937
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • West of Shanghai
    West of Shanghai

    West of Shanghai is a 1937 in film adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff....
     (1937)
  • The Invisible Menace
    The Invisible Menace

    The Invisible Menace is a 1938 in film mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff....
     (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)

    The Adventures of Robin Hood is an United States Swashbuckler films released in 1938 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley....
     (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Dark Victory
    Dark Victory

    Dark Victory is a 1939 in film United States drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch....
     (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a Romantic film drama film based on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn....
     (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Castle on the Hudson
    Castle on the Hudson

    Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 in film drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien . A thief gets sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Santa Fe Trail
    Santa Fe Trail (film)

    Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 in film Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite glaring historical inaccuracies and racist overtones, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the seventh Flynn-de Havilland collaboration....
     (1940)
  • Sergeant York
    Sergeant York

    Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
     (1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Maltese Falcon
    The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)

    The Maltese Falcon is an Cinema of the United States 1941 in film Warner Bros. film based on the The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut, and Peter Lorre....
     (1941)
  • They Died with Their Boots On
    They Died with Their Boots On

    They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 in film Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite being rife with historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the last of eight Flynn-de Havilland collaborations....
     (1941)
  • Casablanca
    Casablanca (film)

    Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
     (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    )
  • Now, Voyager
    Now, Voyager

    Now, Voyager is a 1942 in film United States drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted...
     (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    )
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
     (1942)
  • This Is the Army
    This Is the Army

    This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
     (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    )
  • Desert Fury
    Desert Fury

    Desert Fury is a 1947 in film Paramount Pictures color film noir drama film film starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey....
     (1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Dark City
    Dark City (1950 film)

    Dark City is a 1950 film noir. The casting of Charlton Heston?in his first film appearance?as a petty hood is unusual in light of his subsequent career....
     (1950
    1950 in film

    The year 1950 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Furies
    The Furies (film)

    The Furies is a 1950 Western film directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Walter Huston in his last performance....
     (1950)
  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker (1956 film)

    The Rainmaker is a 1956 in film film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his The Rainmaker . The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain....
     (1956
    1956 in film

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    )
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K....
     (1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Career
    Career (1959 film)

    Career is a 1959 in film film drama about actor Sam Lawson bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the more recent blacklist, something that writer Dalton Trumbo knew all too well from being blacklisted himself....
     (1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Summer and Smoke
    Summer and Smoke (film)

    Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
     (1961
    1961 in film

    The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Becket
    Becket (film)

    Becket is a 1964 in film film adaptation of the play Becket by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
     (1964
    1964 in film

    The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Barefoot in the Park
    Barefoot in the Park (film)

    Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 in film United States comedy film.Based on Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone....
     (1967
    1967 in film

    The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film....
    )
  • True Grit
    True Grit

    True Grit is a 1969 in film Western directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne as United States Marshals Service Rooster Cogburn . The film is adapted from the 1968 novel, True Grit , by Charles Portis....
     (1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Anne of the Thousand Days

    Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 in film film genre made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B....
     (1969)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    Mary, Queen of Scots (film)

    Mary, Queen of Scots is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I....
     (1971
    1971 in film

    The year 1971 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Rooster Cogburn
    Rooster Cogburn

    Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 in film sequel to the 1969 in film Western , True Grit, and stars John Wayne, in his penultimate film, who reprises his role as United States Marshals Service Rooster Cogburn ....
     (1975
    1975 in film

    The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Awards and nominations

  • "Academy Award for Best Picture
    Academy Award for Best Picture

    The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
    " as producer:
    1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
      The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)

      The Adventures of Robin Hood is an United States Swashbuckler films released in 1938 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley....
       (1938)
    2. Four Daughters
      Four Daughters

      Four Daughters is a 1938 in film musical film drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives....
       (1938)
    3. Jezebel (1938)
    4. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
    5. The Letter
      The Letter

      The Letter may refer to:in theatre:*The Letter , a 1927 drama by W. Somerset Maughamin literature:* The Letter , a 1904 short story by Edith Wharton...
       (1940)
    6. Kings Row
      Kings Row

      Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
       (1942)
    7. Yankee Doodle Dandy
      Yankee Doodle Dandy

      Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
       (1942)
    8. Casablanca
      Casablanca (film)

      Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
       (1942)
    9. Watch on the Rhine
      Watch on the Rhine

      Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 in film drama film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. The film stars Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr ....
       (1943)
    10. The Rose Tattoo
      The Rose Tattoo

      The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play. It opened on Broadway theatre in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italy-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same....
       (1955)
    11. Becket
      Becket (film)

      Becket is a 1964 in film film adaptation of the play Becket by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
       (1964)
    12. Anne of the Thousand Days
      Anne of the Thousand Days

      Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 in film film genre made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B....
       (1969)


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