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

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

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

1957

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

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

1947

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

1946

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

1945

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

1944

Passage to Marseille ... (Producer)

1943

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

1942

All Through the Night ... (Executive Producer)
Now, Voyager ... (Producer)
Yankee Doodle Dandy ... (Executive Producer)
In This Our Life ... (Executive Producer)
The Gay Sisters ... (Executive Producer)
Captains of the Clouds ... (Executive Producer)
The Male Animal ... (Executive Producer)
Kings Row ... (Executive Producer)
Desperate Journey ... (Producer)
Juke Girl ... (Executive Producer)
Larceny, Inc. ... (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)
Dive Bomber ... (Executive Producer)
Out of the Fog ... (Executive Producer)
Blues in the Night ... (Executive Producer)
Footsteps in the Dark ... (Executive Producer)
Affectionately Yours ... (Executive Producer)
The Strawberry Blonde ... (Executive Producer)
The Great Lie ... (Executive Producer)
Manpower ... (Executive Producer)
Nine Lives Are Not Enough ... (Executive Producer)
Four Mothers ... (Executive Producer)
Navy Blues ... (Executive Producer)
Underground ... (Executive Producer)
Honeymoon for Three ... (Executive Producer)

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

42nd Street ... (Supervising Producer)
Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Producer)
Ever in My Heart ... (Executive Producer)
Central Airport ... (Producer)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan ... (Producer)
Heroes for Sale ... (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)
They Call It Sin ... (Producer)
Man Wanted ... (Producer)
Scarlet Dawn ... (Producer)
Miss Pinkerton ... (Producer)
Lawyer Man ... (Producer)
The Match King ... (Producer)
Street of Women ... (Producer)
Two Seconds ... (Supervising Producer)

1931

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