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)
1983
1975
- Rooster Cogburn ... (Producer)
1973
- The Don Is Dead ... (Producer)
- Bequest to the Nation ... (Producer)
1972
- Follow Me! ... (Producer)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Red Sky at Morning ... (Producer)
- Mary, Queen of Scots ... (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
- Boeing, Boeing ... (Producer)
- The Sons of Katie Elder ... (Producer)
1964
- Becket ... (Producer)
- Roustabout ... (Producer)
1963
- Fun in Acapulco ... (Producer)
1962
- A Girl Named Tamiko ... (Producer)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Producer)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Producer)
1961
- Blue Hawaii ... (Producer)
- All in a Night's Work ... (Producer)
- Summer and Smoke ... (Producer)
1960
- Visit to a Small Planet ... (Producer)
- G.I. Blues ... (Producer)
1959
- Last Train from Gun Hill ... (Producer)
- Don't Give Up the Ship ... (Producer)
- Career ... (Producer)
1958
- Hot Spell ... (Producer)
- King Creole ... (Producer)
1957
- Loving You ... (Producer)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ... (Producer)
- Wild Is the Wind ... (Producer)
- The Sad Sack ... (Producer)
1956
- The Rainmaker ... (Producer)
- Hollywood or Bust ... (Producer)
1955
- The Rose Tattoo as Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
- Artists and Models ... (Producer)
1954
- About Mrs. Leslie ... (Producer)
- 3 Ring Circus ... (Producer)
1953
- Come Back, Little Sheba ... (Producer)
- Scared Stiff ... (Producer)
- Cease Fire! ... (Producer)
- Money from Home ... (Producer)
1952
- Jumping Jacks ... (Producer)
- Sailor Beware ... (Producer)
1951
- Red Mountain ... (Producer)
- Peking Express ... (Producer)
- That's My Boy ... (Producer)
- The Stooge ... (Producer)
1950
- Dark City ... (Producer)
- September Affair ... (Producer)
- The Furies ... (Producer)
- Paid in Full ... (Producer)
- My Friend Irma Goes West ... (Producer)
1949
- The Accused ... (Producer)
- The File on Thelma Jordon ... (Producer)
- My Friend Irma ... (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)
- Air Force ... (Producer)
- Watch on the Rhine ... (Producer)
- Princess O'Rourke ... (Producer)
- The Constant Nymph ... (Executive Producer)
- This Is the Army ... (Producer)
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- Now, Voyager ... (Producer)
- Kings Row ... (Executive Producer)
- Desperate Journey ... (Producer)
- The Male Animal ... (Executive Producer)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy ... (Executive Producer)
- In This Our Life ... (Executive Producer)
- Captains of the Clouds ... (Executive Producer)
- All Through the Night ... (Executive Producer)
- The Gay Sisters ... (Executive Producer)
- Larceny, Inc. ... (Executive Producer)
- Juke Girl ... (Executive Producer)
1941
- Dive Bomber ... (Executive Producer)
- Underground ... (Executive Producer)
- Four Mothers ... (Executive Producer)
- Sergeant York ... (Producer)
- Navy Blues ... (Executive Producer)
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Executive Producer)
- Manpower ... (Executive Producer)
- Affectionately Yours ... (Executive Producer)
- The Great Lie ... (Executive Producer)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner ... (Executive Producer)
- They Died with Their Boots On ... (Executive Producer)
- The Strawberry Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
- Honeymoon for Three ... (Executive Producer)
- Out of the Fog ... (Executive Producer)
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough ... (Executive Producer)
- High Sierra ... (Executive Producer)
- Footsteps in the Dark ... (Executive Producer)
- Blues in the Night ... (Executive Producer)
1940
- Torrid Zone ... (Executive Producer)
- Virginia City ... (Executive Producer)
- The Letter ... (Executive Producer)
- Brother Orchid ... (Executive Producer)
- The Sea Hawk ... (Executive Producer)
- No Time for Comedy ... (Executive Producer)
- A Fugitive from Justice ... (Executive Producer)
- Saturday's Children ... (Producer)
- It All Came True ... (Executive Producer)
- The Fighting 69th ... (Executive Producer)
- All This, and Heaven Too ... (Executive Producer)
- They Drive by Night ... (Executive Producer)
- Knute Rockne All American ... (Executive Producer)
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- Brother Rat and a Baby ... (Executive Producer)
- City for Conquest ... (Executive Producer)
- Gambling on the High Seas ... (Executive Producer)
- Santa Fe Trail ... (Executive Producer)
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ... (Executive Producer)
- Tear Gas Squad ... (Executive Producer)
- Castle on the Hudson ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder in the Air ... (Executive Producer)
1939
- Dodge City ... (Executive Producer)
- Invisible Stripes ... (Executive Producer)
- Juarez ... (Executive Producer)
- Waterfront ... (Executive Producer)
- Daughters Courageous ... (Executive Producer)
- Sweepstakes Winner ... (Executive Producer)
- Four Wives ... (Executive Producer)
- The Roaring Twenties ... (Producer)
- Each Dawn I Die ... (Executive Producer)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy ... (Executive Producer)
- The Return of Doctor X ... (Executive Producer)
- Espionage Agent ... (Executive Producer)
- The Old Maid ... (Executive Producer)
- Angels Wash Their Faces ... (Executive Producer)
- Code of the Secret Service ... (Executive Producer)
- Smashing the Money Ring ... (Executive Producer)
- Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter ... (Executive Producer)
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase ... (Executive Producer)
- No Place to Go ... (Executive Producer)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown ... (Executive Producer)
- Torchy Runs for Mayor ... (Executive Producer)
- Dust Be My Destiny ... (Executive Producer)
- You Can't Get Away with Murder ... (Executive Producer)
- Private Detective ... (Executive Producer)
- The Adventures of Jane Arden ... (Executive Producer)
- We Are Not Alone ... (Executive Producer)
- On Dress Parade ... (Executive Producer)
- Yes, My Darling Daughter ... (Producer)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (Executive Producer)
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite ... (Executive Producer)
- Dark Victory ... (Executive Producer)
- They Made Me a Criminal ... (Executive Producer)
- The Oklahoma Kid ... (Executive Producer)
- Nancy Drew... Reporter ... (Executive Producer)
1938
- Four Daughters ... (Producer)
- Hollywood Hotel ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime School ... (Executive Producer)
- The Sisters ... (Executive Producer)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Producer)
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Executive Producer)
- Mystery House ... (Executive Producer)
- Broadway Musketeers ... (Executive Producer)
- Gold Is Where You Find It ... (Executive Producer)
- Torchy Blane in Panama ... (Producer)
- Gold Diggers in Paris ... (Executive Producer)
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ... (Executive Producer)
- Blondes at Work ... (Executive Producer)
- Four's a Crowd ... (Executive Producer)
- A Slight Case of Murder ... (Executive Producer)
- The Dawn Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
- Jezebel ... (Executive Producer)
- Over the Wall ... (Executive Producer)
- Torchy Gets Her Man ... (Executive Producer)
- Men Are Such Fools ... (Executive Producer)
- Boy Meets Girl ... (Executive Producer)
- Accidents Will Happen ... (Executive Producer)
1937
- Stolen Holiday ... (Executive Producer)
- Marked Woman ... (Executive Producer)
- Green Light ... (Executive Producer)
- Slim ... (Executive Producer)
- Tovarich ... (Executive Producer)
- Draegerman Courage ... (Executive Producer)
- Public Wedding ... (Executive Producer)
- That Certain Woman ... (Executive Producer)
- Fly Away Baby ... (Executive Producer)
- The Perfect Specimen ... (Producer)
- Love Is on the Air ... (Executive Producer)
- Kid Galahad ... (Executive Producer)
- West of Shanghai ... (Executive Producer)
- The Adventurous Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
- Melody for Two ... (Executive Producer)
- Once a Doctor ... (Executive Producer)
- The Cherokee Strip ... (Executive Producer)
- The Go-Getter ... (Producer)
- Ready, Willing and Able ... (Executive Producer)
- Missing Witnesses ... (Executive Producer)
- Confession ... (Executive Producer)
- That Man's Here Again ... (Executive Producer)
- Black Legion ... (Executive Producer)
- It's Love I'm After ... (Producer)
- Talent Scout ... (Executive Producer)
- Another Dawn ... (Executive Producer)
1936
- Stage Struck ... (Executive Producer)
- Hearts Divided ... (Executive Producer)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur ... (Executive Producer)
- California Mail ... (Executive Producer)
- Road Gang ... (Executive Producer)
- China Clipper ... (Executive Producer)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Executive Producer)
- Colleen ... (Executive Producer)
- Earthworm Tractors ... (Executive Producer)
- Cain and Mabel ... (Executive Producer)
- Gold Diggers of 1937 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Petrified Forest ... (Executive Producer)
- The Case of the Black Cat ... (Executive Producer)
- Fugitive in the Sky ... (Executive Producer)
- The Green Pastures ... (Executive Producer)
- Love Begins at Twenty ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder by an Aristocrat ... (Executive Producer)
- The Big Noise ... (Executive Producer)
- Down the Stretch ... (Executive Producer)
- Give Me Your Heart ... (Producer)
- Bullets or Ballots ... (Executive Producer)
- The Golden Arrow ... (Executive Producer)
- Bengal Tiger ... (Executive Producer)
- I Married a Doctor ... (Executive Producer)
- Jailbreak ... (Executive Producer)
- Two Against the World ... (Executive Producer)
- Trailin' West ... (Executive Producer)
1935
- Captain Blood ... (Executive Producer)
- Bordertown ... (Executive Producer)
- 'G' Men ... (Executive Producer)
- Black Fury ... (Executive Producer)
- Dangerous ... (Executive Producer)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Executive Producer)
- Miss Pacific Fleet ... (Executive Producer)
- A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
- Devil Dogs of the Air ... (Producer)
1934
- Dark Hazard ... (Executive Producer)
- Hi, Nellie! ... (Executive Producer)
- Jimmy the Gent ... (Executive Producer)
- Journal of a Crime ... (Producer)
- The St. Louis Kid ... (Executive Producer)
- Here Comes the Navy ... (Executive Producer)
- Dames ... (Executive Producer)
- The Man with Two Faces ... (Executive Producer)
- The Merry Frinks ... (Executive Producer)
1933
- Central Airport ... (Producer)
- Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Producer)
- The Life of Jimmy Dolan ... (Producer)
- Ever in My Heart ... (Executive Producer)
- The Narrow Corner ... (Producer)
- The Mind Reader ... (Producer)
- Heroes for Sale ... (Producer)
1932
- Two Seconds ... (Supervising Producer)
- Miss Pinkerton ... (Producer)
- The Strange Love of Molly Louvain ... (Producer)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ... (Producer)
- One Way Passage ... (Producer)
- Doctor X ... (Executive Producer)
- Man Wanted ... (Producer)
- Lawyer Man ... (Producer)
- They Call It Sin ... (Producer)
- Street of Women ... (Producer)
- The Match King ... (Producer)
- Scarlet Dawn ... (Producer)
1931
- Little Caesar ... (Producer)
- Blonde Crazy ... (Executive Producer)
- Five Star Final ... (Producer)