Hall Bartlett

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BIRTHDAY

November 27, 1922

Kansas City, MO

DIED

September 08, 1993

RECENT CREDITS

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (FILM) Jan. 1, 1973

Sol Madrid (FILM) Jun. 1, 1968

All the Young Men (FILM) Aug. 1, 1960

Zero Hour (FILM) Nov. 1, 1957

Unchained (FILM) Feb. 1, 1955

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BIOGRAPHY

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Yale alumnus Hall Bartlett set up his own film production company in 1952. His first feature film, Navajo, was a well-received contemporary docudrama, filmed on location at a Southwestern Navajo reservation. Bartlett himself appeared in the film as a white schoolteacher. His next project was Crazylegs (1953), a romanticized biopic of gridiron star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (played by Hirsch himself). Hirsch went on to co-star in the next Hall Bartlett Production, Unchained, another semi-documentary, this one set at a progressive California correctional institution. Bartlett co-directed his next film, 1957's Drango, and that same year wrote and directed the embryonic disaster-in-the-air film Zero Hour (again with "Crazylegs" Hirsch in the cast). After a decade's worth of virtuosity, Bartlett settled into conventional filmmaking in the 1960s. In 1973, he scored a box-office success with his cinemazation of the best-selling novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull. From 1966 through 1971, Hall Bartlett was married to actress Rhonda Fleming, who, intriguingly enough, never appeared in any of her husband's films.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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