Daniel Haller (born September 14, 1929) is an American film and television director,

production designer In film and television, the production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Wo ...

, and art director.

Life and career

Haller was born in

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on September 14, 1929. He studied at the

Chouinard Art Institute The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879–1969) in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1961, Walt and Roy Disney guided the merger of the Chouinard Art Ins ...

in Los Angeles. In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television and then later made

low budget A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced or ...

feature films. Haller designed sets for

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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

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, based on H. P. Lovecraft's

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" The Colour Out of Space". After directing two motorcycle pictures, '' 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'', ''

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'', '' Sara'', '' Battlestar Galactica'', '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' and ''

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''.

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