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 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 hors…
Movies & TV Shows
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Knight Rider (1982) — Director
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Airwolf (1984) — Director
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) — Director
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Charlie's Angels (1976) — Director
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The Fall Guy (1981) — Director
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Kojak (1973) — Director
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) — Director
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Manimal (1983) — Director
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Matlock (1986) — Director
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The Dunwich Horror (1970) — Director
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Quincy, M.E. (1976) — Director
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Night Gallery (1970) — Director
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Street Hawk (1985) — Director
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Galactica 1980 (1980) — Director
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) — Director
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Ironside (1967) — Director
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Die, Monster, Die! (1965) — Director
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977) — Director
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The Mod Squad (1968) — Director
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B. J. and the Bear (1979) — Director
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Devil's Angels (1967) — Director
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Black Beauty (1978) — Director
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Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix (1982) — Director
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The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979) — Director
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The Sixth Sense (1972) — Director
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The Georgia Peaches (1980) — Director
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The Wild Racers (1968) — Director
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Toma (1973) — Director
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Pieces of Dreams (1970) — Director
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Sword of Justice (1978) — Director
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Walking Tall (1981) — Director
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Margin for Murder (1981) — Director
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Little Mo (1978) — Director
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Kingston: Confidential (1977) — Director
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Rosetti and Ryan (1977) — Director
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The Blue Knight (1975) — Director
- High Performance (1983) — Director
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The Desperate Miles (1975) — Director
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High Midnight (1979) — Director
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Paddy (1970) — Director