Hall Bartlett

Hall Bartlett ( born November 27, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, † September 7, 1993 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer, screenwriter and director.

Life

Bartlett, there are over whose birth year different information, studied at Yale University. Thereafter, he served five years in the Navy. He began his film career as a producer for the documentary Navajo, who was the first film that cast a sympathy full view of the Native Americans. With Crazylegs Bartlett was 1953, the first director who made ​​a film about professional American Football; in it he tells the story of Elroy Hirsch. Later works Bartlett, who wrote his own films and produced, included the worldwide success of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the Western Drango, and All the Young Men, in which he dealt with the racial problem using an episode of the Korean War. In The Children of Sanchez Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río played a Mexican couple.

From 1966 to 1972 Bartlett was married to actress Rhonda Fleming; it was the second of three marriages of the filmmaker.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Bartlett's films have received numerous awards; as Navajo was nominated for an Oscar. Greater success than in his home country achieved its films abroad.