Daniel Haller
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Daniel Haller

September 14, 1926 — Glendale, California, USA

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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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Knight Rider

Knight Rider

1982

Airwolf

Airwolf

1984

The Little Shop of Horrors

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961

The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death

1964

House of Usher

House of Usher

1960

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

1978

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

1963