Daniel Haller
{{Short description|American film director (1929–2024)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Haller
| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|9|14}}
| birth_place = Glendale, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|12|14|1929|9|14}}
| death_place = Hidden Hills, California, U.S.
| education = Chouinard Art Institute
| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|art director|production designer}}
| years_active = 1952–1988
| spouse = Kinta Zertuche (divorced)
}}
Daniel Haller (September 14, 1929 – December 18, 2024) was an American film, television director, production designer and art director.{{cite news|title= Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - The Complete Series|work= Cinema Blend|url= http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Buck-Rogers-in-the-25th-Century-The-Complete-Series-822.html|accessdate= 2012-03-15|archive-date= 2014-01-02|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192155/http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Buck-Rogers-in-the-25th-Century-The-Complete-Series-822.html|url-status= dead}}{{cite news|title=Screen: 'Buck Rogers' Glides on Automatic Pilot:'Millionaire's Row' Tour|work=The New York Times|date=March 30, 1979|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A04EFD71E39E732A25753C3A9659C946890D6CF|accessdate=2012-03-14 |author=Canby, Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby }}
Life and career
Haller was born in Glendale, California on September 14, 1929.{{cite web |title=Dan Haller biography |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/79689%7C35388/Dan-Haller |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=August 23, 2022}} He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television and then later made low budget feature films. Haller designed sets for Roger Corman's 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". After directing two motorcycle pictures, Devil's Angels (1967) and The Wild Racers (1968), Haller filmed another Lovecraft adaptation, The Dunwich Horror (1970).{{cite web|work=The New York Times|author=Canby, Vincent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/12/archives/dreadful-doings-at-dunwich-those-dreadful-doings-at-dunwich.html|title=Dreadful Doings At Dunwich|date=July 12, 1970}}
From 1972, all of Haller's subsequent work has been in television, including directing episodes of Night Gallery, Kojak, Sara, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and the pilot episode of Knight Rider.
Haller died on December 18, 2024, at the age of 95.{{Cite web |title=Daniel Haller |url=https://www.forevermissed.com/daniel-haller/about |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Forever Missed|language=en}}
References
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External links
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Category:American art directors
Category:American production designers
Category:American television directors
Category:Film directors from California
Category:Mass media people from Greater Los Angeles
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