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- Harold B. Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer.
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Hal B. Wallis. Harold B. Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – 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 ...
Oct 8, 1986 · Hal B. Wallis, whose 200 motion pictures chronicled the lives of such diverse human creatures as “Little Caesar” and “Becket” and who was among the final few of the breed of film titans who...
Sep 10, 2024 · Hal B. Wallis (born September 14, 1899, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died October 5, 1986, Rancho Mirage, California) was an American motion-picture producer, associated with more than 400 feature-length films from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s.
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When he was still a young teenager his father, burdened by debt, abandoned the family, and Hal was forced to leave school in order to work and contribute to the family budget. Aged fourteen he began work in Chicago as an office junior and later became a travelling salesman for a heating company. When the family moved to Los Angeles in 1922 he got a...
He resigned at the same time as another Warner Bros. director, lawyer, Joseph Hazen. Wallis and Hazen became partners in Hal Wallis Productions, later Wallis-Hazen Productions, an independent producer of feature films. After being approached by several major studios they eventually signed a deal with Paramount Pictures which gave them complete auto...
He was married twice, each time to actresses. His first wife was Louise Fazenda who had a highly successful film career as a comedienne, first in silent movies and then during the 1930's in Talkies. She made in all over 300 films. During the marriage, which lasted from 1927 until her death in 1962, Wallis became known in the studio as "The Prisoner...
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 ...
Overview. Born. September 14, 1899 · Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died. October 5, 1986 · Rancho Mirage, California, USA (diabetes) Birth name. Harold Brent Wallis. Mini Bio. Legendary producer Hal B. Wallis was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles when he was in his early 20s.
Harold Brent Wallis was an American film producer. Background. Hal Wallis was born October 19, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, in the family of Eva (Blum) and Jacob Wolowicz, who were Ashkenazi Jews from the Suwałki region of Poland who changed their surname to Wallis. Education. Harold studied at Gregg Business School. Career.
