William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor. His work exemplified the countercultural attitude...
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is a list of unproduced Hal Ashby projects in roughly chronological order. During his career, American film director Hal Ashby worked on a number of projects...
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The Last Detail (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, from a screenplay by Robert Towne, based on the 1970 novel by Darryl Ponicsan...
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Harold and Maude (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor...
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Coming Home (1978 film) (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with story by...
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actress who gained fame for her appearances in several films directed by Hal Ashby. She also had a lead role on the television series Sirota's Court from...
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on: revisions to the screenplay and from Richards and his successor, Hal Ashby, being replaced by Pollack caused delays to production, which eventually...
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Hal is a 2018 American documentary film by Amy Scott about the film director Hal Ashby. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January and was released...
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Being There (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, and...
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Hail Caesar). Unmade projects include a script written in the 1980s for Hal Ashby to direct, variously referred to under the titles Victor Hiatus and Almost...
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screenplays ever written, as well as its sequel, The Two Jakes (1990). For Hal Ashby, he penned the dramedies The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975). He...
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which is depicted on the film's poster, was used in Hal Ashby's satire film Being There (1979). Ashby was The Thomas Crown Affair's associate producer and...
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director Hal Ashby on films such as The Landlord, Harold and Maude, Shampoo, and Being There. Zimmerman went on to work with director Hal Ashby on six films...
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Schwartzman was an entertainment attorney (clients included director Hal Ashby) and in the late 1970s was an executive at Lorimar Films. Schwartzman...
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shallow Hal skims the career of the director behind Harold And Maude and Being There". The A.V. Club. September 4, 2018. Cocaine Parlays with Hal Ashby – Splice...
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Bound for Glory (1976 film) (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized...
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Shampoo (film) (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
Shampoo is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill...
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Stone (4/3) Quentin Tarantino (4/0) Peter Weir (4/0) William Wyler (4/1) Hal Ashby (3/0) Richard Attenborough (3/1) Bernardo Bertolucci (3/1) James L. Brooks...
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include: Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director Hal Barwood, American game designer Hal Bidlack (born 1958), former USAF officer Hal Blaine (Harold...
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most notably a recurring role on the series The Paper Chase and two Hal Ashby films: Bound for Glory (1976) and Coming Home (1978). Ginty became an...
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8 Million Ways to Die (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
action thriller film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia. It was Ashby's final film, and the first attempt...
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Jane, and the Holocaust drama Julia. The following year she starred in Hal Ashby's Vietnam War drama Coming Home (1978) opposite Jon Voight. She received...
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Lookin' to Get Out (category Films directed by Hal Ashby)
Lookin’ to Get Out is a 1982 American comedy film, directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight, who also stars. The film also stars...
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cinematic influences include Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Satyajit Ray, Hal Ashby, and Roman Polanski. In an interview with Hoda Kotb on Today, Bryan Cranston...
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Being There Hal Ashby More American Graffiti Bill L. Norton The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard 1982 Let's Spend the Night Together Hal Ashby 1983 The Right...
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Spielberg's theatrical debut The Sugarland Express. She then co-starred in Hal Ashby's classic satire Shampoo (1975). She also hosted two television specials:...
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Carpenter film The Thing. He has been frequently cast in films directed by Hal Ashby, Costa-Gavras and Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Born in Waukegan, Illinois,...
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Southern California. During his final year there, acclaimed director Hal Ashby noticed his student film when it was projected on the wall during a film-school...
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dreams at Christmastime. Critics have also compared it to the films of Hal Ashby, such as Harold and Maude and The Last Detail. Reviews in The Boston Globe...
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Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Steven Spielberg, Éric Rohmer, John Cassavetes, and Hal Ashby, among others. Baker has stated that he consciously includes Easter egg...
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