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Hal B. Wallis,
C.B.E. (
September 14,
1899 –
October 5,
1986) was an
Academy Award-winning
American motion picture producer.
Born as
Harold Brent Wallis in
Chicago, his family moved in
1922 to
Los Angeles,
California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at
Warner Bros. 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 that spanned more than fifty years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies.
Among the many great movies he produced was
Casablanca, one of the most honored movies in
Hollywood history, as well as
True Grit, for which
John Wayne won the
Academy Award for Best Actor of
1969. Wallis left Warner Bros. in
1944 to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success both commercially and critically. Among his financial hits were the
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis comedies, and several of
Elvis Presley's movies.
Hal Wallis received sixteen
Academy Award nominations for
Best Picture, 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 for lifetime achievement in
motion pictures.
Marriages
Hal Wallis was married twice, to actress
Louise Fazenda and to actress
Martha Hyer (
1966-
1986).
Death
He died in
Rancho Mirage, California, aged 87. He is interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery,
Glendale, California.
Selected filmography
Awards and nominations
"Academy Award for Best Picture" as producer:
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Four Daughters (1938)
- Jezebel (1938)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
- The Letter (1940)
- Kings Row (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Becket (1964)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
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