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Hal B. Wallis (1899–1986)

Legendary producer Hal B. Wallis was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles when he was in his early 20s. He got a job managing a theater owned by Warner Bros., and his success at the job caught the eye of studio head Jack L. Warner, who gave him a job in the studio's publicity department. Within a few months Wallis had worked his way up to head... See full bio »
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Known For

True Grit
True Grit Producer
(1969)
Casablanca
Casablanca Producer
(1942)
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder Producer
(1965)
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon Producer
(1941)
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 1975 Rooster Cogburn (producer)
 1973 The Don Is Dead (producer)
 1973 The Nelson Affair (producer)
 1972 The Public Eye (producer)
 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots (producer)
 1971 Shoot Out (producer)
 1971 Red Sky at Morning (producer)
 1970 Norwood (producer)
 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days (producer)
 1969 True Grit (producer)
 1968 5 Card Stud (producer)
 1967 Barefoot in the Park (producer)
 1967 Easy Come, Easy Go (producer)
 1966 Paradise, Hawaiian Style (producer)
 1965 Boeing, Boeing (producer)
 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder (producer)
 1964 Roustabout (producer)
 1964 Becket (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1963 Fun in Acapulco (producer)
 1963 Wives and Lovers (producer)
 1962 A Girl Named Tamiko (producer)
 1962 Girls! Girls! Girls! (producer)
 1961 Blue Hawaii (producer)
 1961 Summer and Smoke (producer)
 1961 All in a Night's Work (producer)
 1960 G.I. Blues (producer)
 1960 Visit to a Small Planet (producer)
 1959 Career (producer)
 1959 Last Train from Gun Hill (producer)
 1959 Don't Give Up the Ship (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1958 King Creole (producer)
 1958 Hot Spell (producer)
 1957 Wild Is the Wind (producer)
 1957 The Sad Sack (producer)
 1957 Loving You (producer)
 1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (producer)
 1956 Hollywood or Bust (producer)
 1956 The Rainmaker (producer)
 1955 The Rose Tattoo (producer)
 1955 Artists and Models (producer)
 1954 3 Ring Circus (producer)
 1954 About Mrs. Leslie (producer)
 1953 Money from Home (producer)
 1953 Cease Fire! (Documentary) (producer)
 1953 Scared Stiff (producer)
 1952 Come Back, Little Sheba (producer)
 1952 Jumping Jacks (producer)
 1952 Sailor Beware (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1951 Red Mountain (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1951 The Stooge (producer)
 1951 Peking Express (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1951 That's My Boy (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1950 Introducing Charlton Heston (Short) (producer)
 1950 Dark City (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1950 September Affair (producer)
 1950 The Furies (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1950 My Friend Irma Goes West (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1950 Paid in Full (producer)
 1950 The File on Thelma Jordon (producer)
 1949 My Friend Irma (producer)
 1949 Rope of Sand (producer)
 1949 The Accused (producer)
 1948 Sorry, Wrong Number (producer - as Hal Wallis)
 1948 So Evil My Love (producer)
 1947 I Walk Alone (producer)
 1947 Desert Fury (producer)
 1947 The Perfect Marriage (producer)
 1946 The Searching Wind (producer)
 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (A Hal B. Wallis Production)
 1945 Saratoga Trunk (producer)
 1945 Love Letters (producer)
 1945 You Came Along (producer)
 1945 Rhapsody in Blue (assistant producer)
 1945 The Affairs of Susan (producer)
 1944 Passage to Marseille (producer)
 1943 Princess O'Rourke (producer)
 1943 Watch on the Rhine (producer - uncredited)
 1943 This Is the Army (producer)
 1943 The Constant Nymph (executive producer - uncredited)
 1943 Air Force (producer)
 1942 Casablanca (producer)
 1942 Now, Voyager (producer)
 1942 Desperate Journey (producer)
 1942 The Gay Sisters (executive producer - uncredited)
 1942 Juke Girl (executive producer)
 1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy (executive producer)
 1942 In This Our Life (executive producer)
 1942 Larceny, Inc. (executive producer)
 1942 The Male Animal (executive producer)
 1942 Captains of the Clouds (executive producer)
 1942 Kings Row (executive producer)
 1942 All Through the Night (executive producer)
 1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner (executive producer)
 1941 They Died with Their Boots On (executive producer)
 1941 Blues in the Night (executive producer)
 1941 The Maltese Falcon (executive producer)
 1941 One Foot in Heaven (executive producer)
 1941 Nine Lives Are Not Enough (executive producer - uncredited)
 1941 Navy Blues (executive producer)
 1941 Dive Bomber (executive producer - uncredited)
 1941 Manpower (executive producer)
 1941 The Bride Came C.O.D. (executive producer)
 1941 Sergeant York (producer)
 1941 Underground (executive producer - uncredited)
 1941 Out of the Fog (executive producer)
 1941 Million Dollar Baby (executive producer)
 1941 Shining Victory (executive producer)
 1941 Affectionately Yours (executive producer)
 1941 The Great Lie (executive producer)
 1941 The Sea Wolf (producer - uncredited)
 1941 Footsteps in the Dark (executive producer)
 1941 The Strawberry Blonde (executive producer)
 1941 High Sierra (executive producer)
 1941 Honeymoon for Three (executive producer)
 1941 Four Mothers (executive producer)
 1940 Santa Fe Trail (executive producer)
 1940 The Letter (executive producer)
 1940 East of the River (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 A Dispatch from Reuters (executive producer)
 1940 Knute Rockne All American (executive producer)
 1940 City for Conquest (executive producer)
 1940 No Time for Comedy (executive producer)
 1940 The Sea Hawk (executive producer)
 1940 They Drive by Night (executive producer)
 1940 My Love Came Back (executive producer)
 1940 All This, and Heaven Too (executive producer)
 1940 Gambling on the High Seas (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 A Fugitive from Justice (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 Brother Orchid (executive producer)
 1940 Murder in the Air (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 Torrid Zone (executive producer)
 1940 Saturday's Children (executive producer)
 1940 Tear Gas Squad (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 'Til We Meet Again (executive producer)
 1940 King of the Lumberjacks (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 It All Came True (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 Virginia City (executive producer)
 1940 3 Cheers for the Irish (executive producer)
 1940 Castle on the Hudson (executive producer)
 1940 Granny Get Your Gun (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (executive producer)
 1940 British Intelligence (executive producer - uncredited)
 1940 The Fighting 69th (executive producer)
 1940 Brother Rat and a Baby (executive producer)
 1939 Invisible Stripes (executive producer)
 1939 Four Wives (executive producer)
 1939 Private Detective (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 A Child Is Born (executive producer)
 1939 We Are Not Alone (executive producer)
 1939 The Return of Doctor X (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Kid Nightingale (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Roaring Twenties (executive producer)
 1939 On Dress Parade (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Smashing the Money Ring (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Pride of the Blue Grass (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 On Your Toes (executive producer)
 1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (executive producer)
 1939 Espionage Agent (executive producer)
 1939 No Place to Go (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Dust Be My Destiny (executive producer)
 1939 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Angels Wash Their Faces (executive producer)
 1939 Everybody's Hobby (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Old Maid (executive producer)
 1939 Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Cowboy Quarterback (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Each Dawn I Die (executive producer)
 1939 Waterfront (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Indianapolis Speedway (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Daughters Courageous (executive producer)
 1939 Naughty But Nice (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Code of the Secret Service (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Sweepstakes Winner (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Torchy Runs for Mayor (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Juarez (executive producer)
 1939 Dark Victory (executive producer)
 1939 Women in the Wind (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Man Who Dared (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Dodge City (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 You Can't Get Away with Murder (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Adventures of Jane Arden (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Secret Service of the Air (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 The Oklahoma Kid (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Yes, My Darling Daughter (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Nancy Drew... Reporter (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Wings of the Navy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown (executive producer - uncredited)
 1939 Blackwell's Island (producer - uncredited)
 1939 They Made Me a Criminal (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Going Places (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Dawn Patrol (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Heart of the North (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Comet Over Broadway (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Angels with Dirty Faces (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Torchy Gets Her Man (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Hard to Get (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Brother Rat (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Girls on Probation (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Sisters (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Broadway Musketeers (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Garden of the Moon (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Secrets of an Actress (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Boy Meets Girl (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Four Daughters (producer - uncredited)
 1938 Four's a Crowd (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Penrod's Double Trouble (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Racket Busters (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Cowboy from Brooklyn (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 My Bill (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Men Are Such Fools (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Gold Diggers in Paris (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Mystery House (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Crime School (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Beloved Brat (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Women Are Like That (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Torchy Blane in Panama (producer - uncredited)
 1938 Accidents Will Happen (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Over the Wall (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 He Couldn't Say No (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Jezebel (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 A Slight Case of Murder (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Penrod and His Twin Brother (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Gold Is Where You Find It (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Daredevil Drivers (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Blondes at Work (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 White Banners (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Invisible Menace (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Swing Your Lady (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 The Patient in Room 18 (executive producer - uncredited)
 1938 Sergeant Murphy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Tovarich (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Hollywood Hotel (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 She Loved a Fireman (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Missing Witnesses (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Sh! The Octopus (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 First Lady (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Submarine D-1 (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Adventurous Blonde (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 West of Shanghai (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Perfect Specimen (producer - uncredited)
 1937 It's Love I'm After (producer - uncredited)
 1937 Love Is on the Air (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Back in Circulation (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Prairie Thunder (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Wine, Women and Horses (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Varsity Show (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 That Certain Woman (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Footloose Heiress (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Confession (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Devil's Saddle Legion (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Life of Emile Zola (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Talent Scout (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Empty Holsters (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Public Wedding (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Dance Charlie Dance (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Singing Marine (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Ever Since Eve (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Slim (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Fly Away Baby (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Another Dawn (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Kid Galahad (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 San Quentin (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Go Getter (producer - uncredited)
 1937 Draegerman Courage (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Cherokee Strip (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Melody for Two (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Prince and the Pauper (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Mountain Justice (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Call It a Day (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 That Man's Here Again (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Marked Woman (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Ready, Willing and Able (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Her Husband's Secretary (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 The Great O'Malley (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Green Light (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Stolen Holiday (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Once a Doctor (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Black Legion (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 God's Country and the Woman (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Guns of the Pecos (executive producer - uncredited)
 1937 Smart Blonde (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Gold Diggers of 1937 (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Sing Me a Love Song (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 King of Hockey (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Fugitive in the Sky (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Three Men on a Horse (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 California Mail (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Captain's Kid (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Case of the Black Cat (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Here Comes Carter (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Cain and Mabel (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Down the Stretch (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Give Me Your Heart (producer - uncredited)
 1936 Stage Struck (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Trailin' West (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Love Begins at Twenty (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Case of the Velvet Claws (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 China Clipper (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Jailbreak (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Anthony Adverse (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Bengal Tiger (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Earthworm Tractors (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Green Pastures (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936/I The Big Noise (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Murder by an Aristocrat (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Hearts Divided (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Bullets or Ballots (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Golden Arrow (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Sons o' Guns (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Times Square Playboy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 I Married a Doctor (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Singing Kid (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Snowed Under (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Brides Are Like That (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Colleen (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Boulder Dam (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Road Gang (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 The Petrified Forest (executive producer - uncredited)
 1936 Ceiling Zero (producer)
 1936 Two Against the World (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Dangerous (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Captain Blood (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Miss Pacific Fleet (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Stars Over Broadway (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 'G' Men (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Black Fury (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 The Florentine Dagger (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 A Night at the Ritz (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Devil Dogs of the Air (executive producer - uncredited)
 1935 Bordertown (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 The St. Louis Kid (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 I Sell Anything (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Dames (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 The Man with Two Faces (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Here Comes the Navy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Dr. Monica (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Madame Du Barry (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 The Merry Frinks (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Upper World (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 A Very Honorable Guy (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Journal of a Crime (producer - uncredited)
 1934 Jimmy the Gent (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Dark Hazard (executive producer - uncredited)
 1934 Hi, Nellie! (executive producer - uncredited)
 1933 Ever in My Heart (executive producer - uncredited)
 1933 Mary Stevens, M.D. (executive producer - uncredited)
 1933 The Narrow Corner (producer - uncredited)
 1933 Heroes for Sale (producer - uncredited)
 1933 Central Airport (producer - uncredited)
 1933 The Mind Reader (producer - uncredited)
 1933 Grand Slam (producer - uncredited)
 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum (producer - uncredited)
 1932 The Match King (producer - uncredited)
 1932 Lawyer Man (producer - uncredited)
 1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (executive producer - uncredited)
 1932 They Call It Sin (producer - uncredited)
 1932 Scarlet Dawn (producer - uncredited)
 1932 One Way Passage (producer - uncredited)
 1932 The Cabin in the Cotton (producer - uncredited)
 1932 Doctor X (executive producer - uncredited)
 1932 Miss Pinkerton (producer - uncredited)
 1932 The Dark Horse (supervising producer - uncredited)
 1932 Street of Women (producer - uncredited)
 1932 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (producer - uncredited)
 1932 Two Seconds (supervising producer - uncredited)
 1932 Man Wanted (producer - uncredited)
 1932 Play Girl (executive producer - uncredited)
 1931 Five Star Final (producer - uncredited)
 1931 Little Caesar (producer - uncredited)
 1930 Moby Dick (producer)
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In the old days we had the time and money to give prospective stars a slow build up. Today, an actor makes it fast or he doesn't make it at all. See more »

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The Hal B. Wallis Building contains the Heart Research Facility at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. It's named after the famous producer whose last home was in this city. See more »

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