Daniel Haller

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Daniel "Dan" Haller (born September 14, 1926 in Glendale (California) , United States ) is an American film architect and director for film and television.

Live and act

As a film architect

Dan Haller received his artistic training at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles shortly after World War II before joining television in the early 1950s. After a short period of assistantship, he created a wealth of film structures there, as well as a little later with the cinema, especially for his most important employer, the B-film director and producer Roger Corman , his horror films of the early 1960s, above all several famous Edgar Allan Poe film adaptations, which he should shape the style through his scenic designs. "How director Roger Corman treats his sources (EA Poe) in a parodic way, so are the eccentric ideas of DH correspondingly humorous," said Helmut Weihsmann.

As a director

At the end of the Poe film series Cormans, Daniel Haller switched to directing in 1965 and was offered another horror film material as his first assignment, the adaptation of HP Lovecraft's short story The Color from Space , which was released in German cinemas under the title The Gray at Witley Castle came and met with little approval from the criticism. This film, like most of the follow-up works - including a biker flick in the late 1960s, a car racing drama and another horror film with Voodoo Child - attracted little attention. Since 1971, Haller has staged only television films or individual episodes of television series, which proved that the Californian was merely a technically capable commercial director. In 1987 Daniel Haller retired from the film business with an episode of the Highwayman series .

Filmography (selection)

As a film architect
As a director in (until 1970) cinema and (from 1971) television film productions
  • 1965: The horror at Witley Castle (Die, Monster, Die!)
  • 1967: Rebels in leather jackets (Devil's Angels)
  • 1968: The Wild Racers
  • 1969: Voodoo Child (The Dunwich Horror)
  • 1970: Paddy
  • 1970: The Priest's Lover (Pieces of Dreams)
  • 1971: Los Angeles 1937 ( Banyon , series)
  • 1972–1974: Owen Marshall - Defense Attorney (several episodes in this series)
  • 1972–1974: The Boss (several episodes in this series)
  • 1974–1976: deployment in Manhattan (several episodes of this series)
  • 1977: Black Beauty (TV series)
  • 1978: Little Mo
  • 1978: A Double Life
  • 1978: Buck Rogers (series pilot)
  • 1979: Battlestar Galactica (several episodes of this series)
  • 1979: Reckoning at midnight (High Midnight)
  • 1979/80: Sheriff Lobo ( The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo , several episodes of the series)
  • 1980: The Georgia Peaches
  • 1981: Margin for Murder
  • 1982: Knight Rider (several episodes in this series)
  • 1981–1986: A Colt for All Cases (several episodes of this series)
  • 1986: Matlock (several episodes in this series)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Weihsmann: Built Illusions. Architecture in Film, p. 250. Vienna 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Haller, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haller, Dan (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect and director in film and television
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale , California , United States