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Hal B. Wallis

Hal B. Wallis

Born: 1899-09-13 • Chicago, Illinois, USA

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
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story poster
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 • Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn poster
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 • Self - Producer (archive footage)
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Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983 • Self
The Rose Tattoo poster
The Rose Tattoo
1955 • Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
Show-Business at War poster
Show-Business at War
1943 • Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards poster
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 • Self (archive footage)
A Dream Comes True poster
A Dream Comes True
1935 • Himself (uncredited)