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Hal B. Wallis
Birth name	Harold Brent Wallis
Born	September 14, 1899 Chicago, Illinois
Died	October 5, 1986 Rancho Mirage, California
Spouse(s)	Louise Fazenda (1927-1962) (one son Brent) Martha Hyer (1966-1986)
Awards Academy Awards Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1939 Lifetime Achievement 1944 Lifetime Achievement Best Picture 1942 Casablanca Golden Globe Awards Cecil B. DeMille Award 1975 Lifetime Achievement

Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1899 – October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer.

Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923.

Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies.

Among the many great movies he produced was Casablanca, one of the most honored movies in Hollywood history, as well as the Academy Award winning film True Grit starring John Wayne. Wallis left Warner Bros. in 1944 to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success including a number of highly successful and acclaimed movies as well as the production of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies and several of the Elvis Presley movies.

He was nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, winning twice for Best Picture. In 1974, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Hal Wallis received sixteen Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, winning for Casablanca in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Hal Wallis was married twice, to actress Louise Fazenda and to actress Martha Hyer (1966-1986)

He died in Rancho Mirage, California, aged 88. He is interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.

• Little Caesar (1931)
• Central Airport (1933)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• Castle on the Hudson (1940)
• Santa Fe Trail (1940)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• This Is the Army (1943)
• Desert Fury (1947)
• Dark City (1950)
• The Furies (1950)
• The Rainmaker (1956)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• Career (1959)
• Becket (1964)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• True Grit (1969)
• Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
• Rooster Cogburn (1975)

• "Academy Award for Best Picture" as producer:
  1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  2. Four Daughters (1938)
  3. Jezebel (1938)
  4. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
  5. The Letter (1940)
  6. Kings Row (1942)
  7. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  8. Casablanca (1942)
  9. Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  10. The Rose Tattoo (1955)
  11. Becket (1964)
  12. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

• Hal B. Wallis at the Internet Movie Database
• Hal B. Wallis at the TCM Movie Database