Hal B. Wallis

Born: 1899-09-13 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died: 1986-10-05

Known For: Production

Biography

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.

Filmography

2018

Elvis Presley: The Searcher as Self (archive footage)

2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Producer (archive footage)

1972

Follow Me! ... (Producer)

1971

Film '72 as Self
Mary, Queen of Scots ... (Producer)
Red Sky at Morning ... (Producer)

1970

Norwood ... (Producer)

1969

True Grit ... (Producer)
Anne of the Thousand Days ... (Producer)

1968

5 Card Stud ... (Producer)

1967

Barefoot in the Park ... (Producer)
Easy Come, Easy Go ... (Producer)

1966

Paradise, Hawaiian Style ... (Producer)

1965

The Sons of Katie Elder ... (Producer)
Boeing, Boeing ... (Producer)

1964

Becket ... (Producer)
Roustabout ... (Producer)

1963

Fun in Acapulco ... (Producer)

1962

Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Producer)
A Girl Named Tamiko ... (Producer)

1961

Blue Hawaii ... (Producer)
All in a Night's Work ... (Producer)
Summer and Smoke ... (Producer)

1960

G.I. Blues ... (Producer)
Visit to a Small Planet ... (Producer)

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill ... (Producer)
Don't Give Up the Ship ... (Producer)
Career ... (Producer)

1958

King Creole ... (Producer)
Hot Spell ... (Producer)

1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ... (Producer)
Loving You ... (Producer)
Wild Is the Wind ... (Producer)
The Sad Sack ... (Producer)

1956

The Rainmaker ... (Producer)
Hollywood or Bust ... (Producer)

1955

Artists and Models ... (Producer)
The Rose Tattoo as Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)

1954

3 Ring Circus ... (Producer)
About Mrs. Leslie ... (Producer)

1953

Come Back, Little Sheba ... (Producer)
Scared Stiff ... (Producer)
Money from Home ... (Producer)
Cease Fire! ... (Producer)

1952

Sailor Beware ... (Producer)
Jumping Jacks ... (Producer)

1951

Red Mountain ... (Producer)
That's My Boy ... (Producer)
The Stooge ... (Producer)
Peking Express ... (Producer)

1950

The Furies ... (Producer)
My Friend Irma Goes West ... (Producer)
Dark City ... (Producer)
September Affair ... (Producer)
Paid in Full ... (Producer)

1949

The File on Thelma Jordon ... (Producer)
My Friend Irma ... (Producer)
The Accused ... (Producer)
Rope of Sand ... (Producer)

1948

Sorry, Wrong Number ... (Producer)
So Evil My Love ... (Producer)

1947

Desert Fury ... (Producer)
I Walk Alone ... (Producer)
The Perfect Marriage ... (Producer)

1946

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ... (Producer)

1945

The Affairs of Susan ... (Producer)
Rhapsody in Blue ... (Executive Producer)
You Came Along ... (Producer)
Love Letters ... (Producer)

1944

Passage to Marseille ... (Producer)

1943

Casablanca ... (Producer)
Watch on the Rhine ... (Producer)
Air Force ... (Producer)
Princess O'Rourke ... (Producer)
This Is the Army ... (Producer)
Show-Business at War as Self
The Constant Nymph ... (Executive Producer)

1942

Now, Voyager ... (Producer)
All Through the Night ... (Executive Producer)
Yankee Doodle Dandy ... (Executive Producer)
In This Our Life ... (Executive Producer)
Captains of the Clouds ... (Executive Producer)
Kings Row ... (Executive Producer)
The Gay Sisters ... (Executive Producer)
Larceny, Inc. ... (Executive Producer)
The Male Animal ... (Executive Producer)
Desperate Journey ... (Producer)
Juke Girl ... (Executive Producer)

1941

The Maltese Falcon ... (Executive Producer)
Sergeant York ... (Producer)
They Died with Their Boots On ... (Executive Producer)
High Sierra ... (Executive Producer)
The Man Who Came to Dinner ... (Executive Producer)
Footsteps in the Dark ... (Executive Producer)
Affectionately Yours ... (Executive Producer)
The Strawberry Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
Blues in the Night ... (Executive Producer)
The Great Lie ... (Executive Producer)
Out of the Fog ... (Executive Producer)
Manpower ... (Executive Producer)
Nine Lives Are Not Enough ... (Executive Producer)
Underground ... (Executive Producer)
Dive Bomber ... (Executive Producer)
Four Mothers ... (Executive Producer)
Navy Blues ... (Executive Producer)
Honeymoon for Three ... (Executive Producer)

1940

They Drive by Night ... (Executive Producer)
All This, and Heaven Too ... (Executive Producer)
The Letter ... (Executive Producer)
The Sea Hawk ... (Executive Producer)
Santa Fe Trail ... (Executive Producer)
Knute Rockne All American ... (Executive Producer)
City for Conquest ... (Executive Producer)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ... (Executive Producer)
Castle on the Hudson ... (Executive Producer)
Virginia City ... (Executive Producer)
Murder in the Air ... (Executive Producer)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
No Time for Comedy ... (Executive Producer)
The Fighting 69th ... (Executive Producer)
Brother Rat and a Baby ... (Executive Producer)
It All Came True ... (Executive Producer)
Brother Orchid ... (Executive Producer)
A Fugitive from Justice ... (Executive Producer)
Gambling on the High Seas ... (Executive Producer)
Torrid Zone ... (Executive Producer)
Tear Gas Squad ... (Executive Producer)
Saturday's Children ... (Producer)

1939

Dark Victory ... (Executive Producer)
Each Dawn I Die ... (Executive Producer)
The Roaring Twenties ... (Producer)
Juarez ... (Executive Producer)
Dodge City ... (Executive Producer)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (Executive Producer)
They Made Me a Criminal ... (Executive Producer)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy ... (Executive Producer)
The Return of Doctor X ... (Executive Producer)
Invisible Stripes ... (Executive Producer)
The Oklahoma Kid ... (Executive Producer)
We Are Not Alone ... (Executive Producer)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase ... (Executive Producer)
Code of the Secret Service ... (Executive Producer)
Dust Be My Destiny ... (Executive Producer)
Smashing the Money Ring ... (Executive Producer)
Yes, My Darling Daughter ... (Producer)
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite ... (Executive Producer)
Angels Wash Their Faces ... (Executive Producer)
Torchy Runs for Mayor ... (Executive Producer)
The Old Maid ... (Executive Producer)
Nancy Drew... Reporter ... (Executive Producer)
You Can't Get Away with Murder ... (Executive Producer)
Torchy Blane in Chinatown ... (Executive Producer)
The Adventures of Jane Arden ... (Executive Producer)
Espionage Agent ... (Executive Producer)
Daughters Courageous ... (Executive Producer)
Private Detective ... (Executive Producer)
Four Wives ... (Executive Producer)
No Place to Go ... (Executive Producer)
Sweepstakes Winner ... (Executive Producer)
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter ... (Executive Producer)
Waterfront ... (Executive Producer)
On Dress Parade ... (Executive Producer)

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Producer)
Jezebel ... (Executive Producer)
Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Executive Producer)
A Slight Case of Murder ... (Executive Producer)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ... (Executive Producer)
The Sisters ... (Executive Producer)
Four's a Crowd ... (Executive Producer)
The Dawn Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
Gold Is Where You Find It ... (Executive Producer)
Gold Diggers in Paris ... (Executive Producer)
Torchy Blane in Panama ... (Producer)
Crime School ... (Executive Producer)
Four Daughters ... (Producer)
Hollywood Hotel ... (Executive Producer)
Blondes at Work ... (Executive Producer)
Torchy Gets Her Man ... (Executive Producer)
Over the Wall ... (Executive Producer)
Men Are Such Fools ... (Executive Producer)
Boy Meets Girl ... (Executive Producer)
Mystery House ... (Executive Producer)
Broadway Musketeers ... (Executive Producer)
Accidents Will Happen ... (Executive Producer)

1937

Marked Woman ... (Executive Producer)
It's Love I'm After ... (Producer)
Slim ... (Executive Producer)
Love Is on the Air ... (Executive Producer)
Kid Galahad ... (Executive Producer)
Another Dawn ... (Executive Producer)
Black Legion ... (Executive Producer)
The Go-Getter ... (Producer)
Ready, Willing and Able ... (Executive Producer)
Tovarich ... (Executive Producer)
That Certain Woman ... (Executive Producer)
Confession ... (Executive Producer)
That Man's Here Again ... (Executive Producer)
The Cherokee Strip ... (Executive Producer)
Melody for Two ... (Executive Producer)
Green Light ... (Executive Producer)
The Perfect Specimen ... (Producer)
Draegerman Courage ... (Executive Producer)
Missing Witnesses ... (Executive Producer)
Once a Doctor ... (Executive Producer)
The Adventurous Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
Public Wedding ... (Executive Producer)
Fly Away Baby ... (Executive Producer)
West of Shanghai ... (Executive Producer)
Stolen Holiday ... (Executive Producer)
Talent Scout ... (Executive Producer)

1936

The Petrified Forest ... (Executive Producer)
The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Executive Producer)
The Story of Louis Pasteur ... (Executive Producer)
Bullets or Ballots ... (Executive Producer)
The Walking Dead ... (Executive Producer)
Road Gang ... (Executive Producer)
Murder by an Aristocrat ... (Executive Producer)
Two Against the World ... (Executive Producer)
China Clipper ... (Executive Producer)
Gold Diggers of 1937 ... (Executive Producer)
Cain and Mabel ... (Executive Producer)
Give Me Your Heart ... (Producer)
I Married a Doctor ... (Executive Producer)
The Case of the Black Cat ... (Executive Producer)
Stage Struck ... (Executive Producer)
Snowed Under ... (Executive Producer)
The Golden Arrow ... (Executive Producer)
Colleen ... (Executive Producer)
Love Begins at Twenty ... (Executive Producer)
Jailbreak ... (Executive Producer)
Trailin' West ... (Executive Producer)
Hearts Divided ... (Executive Producer)
The Big Noise ... (Executive Producer)
Earthworm Tractors ... (Executive Producer)
Fugitive in the Sky ... (Executive Producer)
The Green Pastures ... (Executive Producer)
California Mail ... (Executive Producer)
Down the Stretch ... (Executive Producer)
Bengal Tiger ... (Executive Producer)

1935

Captain Blood ... (Executive Producer)
A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Executive Producer)
'G' Men ... (Executive Producer)
Bordertown ... (Executive Producer)
Dangerous ... (Executive Producer)
Devil Dogs of the Air ... (Producer)
A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
Miss Pacific Fleet ... (Executive Producer)
Black Fury ... (Executive Producer)

1934

Flirtation Walk ... (Producer)
Here Comes the Navy ... (Executive Producer)
Dames ... (Executive Producer)
Jimmy the Gent ... (Executive Producer)
Journal of a Crime ... (Producer)
Dark Hazard ... (Executive Producer)
The Man with Two Faces ... (Executive Producer)
The St. Louis Kid ... (Executive Producer)
Hi, Nellie! ... (Executive Producer)
The Merry Frinks ... (Executive Producer)

1933

42nd Street ... (Supervising Producer)
Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Producer)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan ... (Producer)
Heroes for Sale ... (Producer)
Ever in My Heart ... (Executive Producer)
Central Airport ... (Producer)
The Mind Reader ... (Producer)
Private Detective 62 ... (Supervising Producer)
The Narrow Corner ... (Producer)

1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ... (Producer)
Doctor X ... (Executive Producer)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain ... (Producer)
One Way Passage ... (Producer)
Scarlet Dawn ... (Producer)
Two Seconds ... (Supervising Producer)
Miss Pinkerton ... (Producer)
Man Wanted ... (Producer)
Lawyer Man ... (Producer)
The Match King ... (Producer)
They Call It Sin ... (Producer)
Street of Women ... (Producer)

1931

Little Caesar ... (Producer)
Blonde Crazy ... (Executive Producer)
Five Star Final ... (Producer)