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William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor. [2] [3] His work exemplified the countercultural attitude of the era. He directed wide ranging films featuring iconic performances.
Hal (2018) 1 Video. 27 Photos. Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of high school ...
Hal Ashby. Editor: In the Heat of the Night. Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of high school, getting married and divorced all before he...
Hal Ashby (born September 2, 1929, Ogden, Utah, U.S.—died December 27, 1988, Malibu, California) was an American filmmaker who was one of the preeminent directors of the 1970s. He was especially noted for such films as Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo (1975), and Being There (1979). (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film ...
Mar 18, 2024 · Hal Ashby was an influential New Hollywood filmmaker who directed a string of gems in the 1970s and '80s. He started out as an editor in the '50s before stepping behind the camera himself with ...
Sep 7, 2018 · Three decades later, another editor-turned-director, Amy Scott, has made the first feature-length documentary about Ashby. Hal goes behind the great filmmaker’s enigmatic long-haired-hippie persona to create a complex portrait of an artist whose strident independence and lack of interest in commercial success fueled his ability to craft ...
Sep 6, 2018 · The director Norman Jewison adopted Hal Ashby as a kind of mentee and became a father figure to the hardworking but nomadic Southwestern refugee. The Ashby we talk about now was a late-blooming ...
