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...

Known For

Career Timeline

19531955195719591961196319651967
  1. 1967
    A Time for Killing

    Art Direction • Art

  2. 1967
    Thunder Alley

    Art Direction • Art

  3. 1966
  4. 1966
    Fireball 500

    Art Direction • Art

  5. 1965
  6. 1964
    Bikini Beach

    Art Direction • Art

  7. 1964
    Pajama Party

    Art Direction • Art

  8. 1964
    The Comedy of Terrors

    Production Design • Art

Daniel Haller - Aperture