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 Cormans 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 Lovecrafts short story The Colour Out of Space it was very similar in plot and atmosphere to Cormans Poe films After directing two motorcycle pictures The Devils Angels 1967 and The Wild Racers 1968 Haller filmed another Lovecraft adaptation The Dunwich Horror 1970 From 1972 all of Hallers 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Haller licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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