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)
Summer and Smoke ... (Producer)
All in a Night's Work ... (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)
The Sad Sack ... (Producer)
Wild Is the Wind ... (Producer)
Loving You ... (Producer)

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1953

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

1952

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

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

1947

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

1946

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

1945

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

1944

Passage to Marseille ... (Producer)

1943

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

1942

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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