19 Facts About Hall Bartlett

Hall Bartlett was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter, and a pioneer of independent filmmaking.

Hall Bartlett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member and a Rhodes Scholar nominee.

Hall Bartlett served five years in US Naval Intelligence during World War II, then started his film making career when he began producing the documentary film Navajo, the first contemporary picture to focus attention on the plight of the American Indian.

Bartlett was the first filmmaker to do a picture about professional football: the film Crazylegs, which Bartlett wrote and produced, was the story of superstar Elroy Hirsch.

Hall Bartlett spent six months living as an inmate while he wrote the screenplay.

Hall Bartlett cast Dana Andrews in the lead role, and Hirsch as the pilot.

Hall Bartlett produced A Global Affair, a story about the first baby ever born in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, which starred Bob Hope and Lilo Pulver and was directed by Jack Arnold.

Hall Bartlett got along with neither the star nor the director, and the resulting film pleased nobody.

Hall Bartlett had allegedly violated a term in his contract with Bach which stated that no changes could be made to the film's adaptation without Bach's consent.

However, like many of Hall Bartlett's later films, the film received only a limited release, and was a box office failure.

Hall Bartlett is the first person to get permission to shoot on the Mekong River, two miles away from the Army of Laos.

Landon and Hall Bartlett clashed often during the production over a variety of issues with Hall Bartlett eventually editing the film in secret to avoid Landon's interference.

Hall Bartlett was heavily involved in the Los Angeles community as a founder of the Music Center, a director of the James Doolittle Theatre, a patron of the Art Museum, a patron of the American Youth Symphony, a board member of KCET, and organizer of the Los Angeles Rams Club and the Los Angeles Lakers Basketball Club.

Hall Bartlett's first novel, The Rest of Our Lives, was a best seller in 1988.

Hall Bartlett partnered with Michael J Lasky and developed a dozen projects for the eleven years prior to his death.

Bartlett and Lasky both wrote and drafted many scripts for the project with Hall positioned as the director and Lasky producing.

Hall Bartlett died on September 8,1993, at the age of 70.

Hall Bartlett experienced complications from a hip operation and died while being transported from his home in Los Angeles to a hospital.

Hall Bartlett's films have received ten Best Picture and Best Director awards at various international film festivals, seventeen Academy Award nominations, eight Hollywood Foreign Press Golden Globe Awards, and more than 75 national and international awards from publications and organizations.