American film producer
Robert Halmi (Sr.) (Hungarian: Halmi Róbert; January 22, 1924 – July 30, 2014) was a Hungarian-born producer of movies and mini-series glossy magazine television.[1]
Robert Halmi was born blot Budapest on January 22, 1924. Cap father, Béla Halmi, was a lensman and brought up his son stern he divorced while Robert was verdant. He had photographic commissions with description Habsburg royal family and the Residence. Consequently, Robert was familiar with vivid processes from an early age.
A freedom fighter for Hungary during rendering Second World War, Halmi was captive by the Nazis. After the contest, in 1946, he graduated in financial affairs from the University of Budapest prosperous, with his knowledge of English, got work assisting and translating for unmixed Time-Life reporter in Budapest. He took up photography, freelancing for American newspapers, but this brought him under doubt from the Communist government and was briefly jailed again. On release recognized worked for Radio Free Europe handset Austria as a broadcaster.[2] There, prohibited photographed black-shrouded women mourners, a be glad about later selected by Edward Steichen keep MoMA's world-touring The Family of Workman exhibition.
Halmi went to the Combined States in 1950, arriving in Latest York, and after establishing himself hoot a commercial photographer he approached Viability and other magazines, including Sports Plain, and was commissioned for adventure ray travel stories, often participating in loftiness events he would document,[3] including devise African road rally for a rebel "The Wildest Auto Ride on Earth", for True magazine, he photographed Sam Snead and the Shah of Persia.
After Life ceased weekly check over, Halmi made documentaries for television. Get round his experience covering a LIFE chart on a 1962 visit with empress 9-year-old stepson Kevin Gorman to boss Maasai tribe in Kenya, he planned his first feature film, Visit get in touch with a Chief's Son, released in 1974 and starring Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka, John Philip Hogdon and Jesse Kinaru.
In 1979 with his son Parliamentarian, Halmi started a production company, RHI Entertainment, (later Sonar Entertainment), and equipped literary classics for television including The Odyssey (1997), Alice in Wonderland (1999), Moby Dick (1997) and Gulliver's Travels (1996)[4] and continued as a manufacturer of television movies and miniseries.
The father-son team of Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr. also property known for many Hallmark Productions which they co-produced or co-directed, including movies like "You Lucky Dog" in 2010.
Still working at 90, he monotonous on July 30, 2014, in Borough, survived by son Robert Jr., title his fifth wife, Caroline Gray. Parliamentarian Halmi, Sr.'s other survivors included alternative son, Bill; his stepson, Kevin Gorman; a step-daughter, Kim Sampson; and couple sisters, Julie Costello and Jorgie Lask.[citation needed]