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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-09-14 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Glendale, California, USA

Daniel Haller

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daniel Haller (born September 14, 1926 in Glendale, California) is an American film and television director, production designer, and art director. Haller studied at the renowned Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television, then quickly graduated to low budget feature films. Among many other credits, Haller designed the deceptively opulent sets for nearly all of Roger Corman's critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe film series, including House of Usher (1960) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).

Haller directed his first film, Die, Monster, Die!, in 1965 for American International Pictures. Based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Colour Out of Space, it was very similar in plot and atmosphere to Corman's Poe films. After directing two motorcycle pictures (The Devil's Angels (1967) and The Wild Racers (1968)), Haller filmed another Lovecraft adaptation, The Dunwich Horror (1970).

From 1972, all of Haller's subsequent work has been in television, including directing episodes of Night Gallery, Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Today he lives with his family in a horse ranch in the San Fernando Valley.

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Known For

Acting

2022

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Loafers as Cameron

Directing

1986

Matlock as Director

1985

Street Hawk as Director

1984

Airwolf as Director

1983

Manimal as Director
High Performance as Director

1981

Margin for Murder as Director
The Fall Guy as Director
Walking Tall as Director

1980

Galactica 1980 as Director

1978

Little Mo as Director
A Double Life as Director
Sword of Justice as Director
Black Beauty as Director

1976

Charlie's Angels as Director
Quincy, M.E. as Director

1975

The Blue Knight as Director

1973

Kojak as Director
Toma as Director
Doc Elliot as Director

1972

The Sixth Sense as Director

1970

The Dunwich Horror as Director
Pieces of Dreams as Director
Paddy as Director
Night Gallery as Director

1968

The Wild Racers as Director
The Mod Squad as Director

1967

Devil's Angels as Director
Ironside as Director

1965

Die, Monster, Die! as Director

Art

1967

Thunder Alley as Art Direction
A Time for Killing as Art Direction

1966

Fireball 500 as Art Direction

1964

The Comedy of Terrors as Production Design
The Comedy of Terrors as Art Direction
Bikini Beach as Art Direction
Pajama Party as Art Direction
The Masque of the Red Death as Production Design
The Tomb of Ligeia as Art Direction

1963

The Raven as Production Design
Diary of a Madman as Art Direction
The Raven as Art Direction
Operation Bikini as Art Direction
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as Production Design
The Terror as Art Direction
Beach Party as Art Direction
The Haunted Palace as Art Direction

1962

The Premature Burial as Art Direction
Tales of Terror as Production Design
Tower of London as Art Direction
Panic in Year Zero! as Set Designer
Panic in Year Zero! as Art Direction
Tales of Terror as Art Direction

1961

The Pit and the Pendulum as Art Direction
The Pit and the Pendulum as Production Design
Master of the World as Production Design
Master of the World as Art Direction
The Cat Burglar as Art Direction
Devil's Partner as Art Direction

1960

House of Usher as Production Design
The Girl in Lovers Lane as Art Direction
The Wild Ride as Art Direction

1959

A Bucket of Blood as Art Direction
The Wasp Woman as Art Direction
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow as Art Direction
Tank Commandos as Art Direction
The Atomic Submarine as Art Direction

1958

War of the Satellites as Art Direction
Night of the Blood Beast as Art Direction
Machine-Gun Kelly as Art Direction

1954

Duffy of San Quentin as Art Direction

1953

White Goddess as Production Design

Production

1965

1961

Master of the World as Associate Producer