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Daniel Haller

Biography

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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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Directing

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

1982

Director

Margin for Murder

1981

Director

The Georgia Peaches

1980

Director

High Midnight

1979

Director

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

Director

Little Mo

1978

Director

A Double Life

1978

Director

The Desperate Miles

1975

Director

Pieces of Dreams

1970

Director

Paddy

1970

Director

The Dunwich Horror

1970

Director

The Wild Racers

1968

Director

Devil's Angels

1967

Director

Die, Monster, Die!

1965

Director

Art

A Time for Killing

1967

Art Direction

Thunder Alley

1967

Art Direction

Fireball 500

1966

Art Direction

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

1966

Art Direction

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

1965

Art Direction

The Tomb of Ligeia

1964

Art Direction

Pajama Party

1964

Art Direction

Bikini Beach

1964

Art Direction

The Masque of the Red Death

1964

Production Design

The Comedy of Terrors

1964

Production Design

The Comedy of Terrors

1964

Art Direction

The Haunted Palace

1963

Art Direction

Beach Party

1963

Art Direction

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

1963

Art Direction

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

1963

Production Design

The Terror

1963

Art Direction

Operation Bikini

1963

Art Direction

Diary of a Madman

1963

Art Direction

The Raven

1963

Production Design

The Raven

1963

Art Direction

Tower of London

1962

Art Direction

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

Set Designer

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

Art Direction

Tales of Terror

1962

Production Design

Tales of Terror

1962

Art Direction

The Premature Burial

1962

Art Direction

Devil's Partner

1961

Art Direction

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961

Art Direction

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961

Production Design

The Cat Burglar

1961

Art Direction

Master of the World

1961

Production Design

Master of the World

1961

Art Direction

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

Art Direction

House of Usher

1960

Production Design

The Wild Ride

1960

Art Direction

The Girl in Lovers Lane

1960

Art Direction

The Atomic Submarine

1959

Art Direction

The Wasp Woman

1959

Art Direction

A Bucket of Blood

1959

Art Direction

Attack of the Giant Leeches

1959

Art Direction

The Diary of a High School Bride

1959

Art Direction

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

1959

Art Direction

Tank Commandos

1959

Art Direction

Night of the Blood Beast

1958

Art Direction

War of the Satellites

1958

Art Direction

Machine-Gun Kelly

1958

Art Direction

White Goddess

1953

Production Design

Daniel Haller

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Art