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Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; September 14, 1899 – 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 , Bette ...
He oversaw the production of many of Warners' most famous films, including Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Casablanca (1942).
He oversaw the production of many of Warners' most famous films, including Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Casablanca (1942).
Hal B. Wallis was an American motion-picture producer, associated with more than 400 feature-length films from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s. Wallis began work at age 14 as an office boy and later worked as a traveling salesman. In 1922 his family moved to Los Angeles, where he managed a movie.
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 could...
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.
Wallis produced a remarkable string of classic films: Sergeant York, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, The Bride Came C.O.D., The Strawberry Blond, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy , and Casablanca. But Wallis' career was hardly over when he left Warner Bros. in 1944.
