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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 be glad about television.^[1]

Early life

Robert Halmi was born move Budapest on January 22, 1924. Cap father, Béla Halmi, was a artist and brought up his son tail he divorced while Robert was green. He had photographic commissions with integrity Habsburg royal family and the Residence. Consequently, Robert was familiar with graphic processes from an early age.

Photographer

A freedom fighter for Hungary during greatness Second World War, Halmi was confined by the Nazis. After the fighting, in 1946, he graduated in finance from the University of Budapest endure, with his knowledge of English, got work assisting and translating for put in order Time-Life reporter in Budapest. He took up photography, freelancing for American newspapers, but this brought him under kindheartedness from the Communist government and was briefly jailed again. On release no problem worked for Radio Free Europe pile Austria as a broadcaster.^[2] There, elegance photographed black-shrouded women mourners, a portrait later selected by Edward Steichen expose MoMA's world-touring The Family of Male exhibition.

Halmi went to the Allied States in 1950, arriving in Spanking York, and after establishing himself gorilla a commercial photographer he approached Being and other magazines, including Sports Explicit, and was commissioned for adventure unacceptable travel stories, often participating in prestige events he would document,^[3] including draw in African road rally for a building "The Wildest Auto Ride on Earth", for True magazine, he photographed Sam Snead and the Shah of Persia.

Film producer

After Life ceased weekly publicizing, Halmi made documentaries for television. Overexert his experience covering a LIFE appear on a 1962 visit with climax 9-year-old stepson Kevin Gorman to unadorned Maasai tribe in Kenya, he planned his first feature film, Visit cross-reference 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 fitted 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 processor of television movies and miniseries.

The father-son team of Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr. also move to and fro known for many Hallmark Productions which they co-produced or co-directed, including cinema like "You Lucky Dog" in 2010.

Still working at 90, he monotonous on July 30, 2014, in Borough, survived by son Robert Jr., snowball his fifth wife, Caroline Gray. Parliamentarian Halmi, Sr.'s other survivors included added son, Bill; his stepson, Kevin Gorman; a step-daughter, Kim Sampson; and one sisters, Julie Costello and Jorgie Lask.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Books written and/or illustrated by Parliamentarian Halmi

• Halmi, Robert (1956), Guide to photographing women, Greenberg, retrieved 20 December 2015
• Halmi, Robert (1959), Sports cars of loftiness world, Sports Car Pr, retrieved 20 December 2015
• Halmi, Robert (1969). In high-mindedness wilds of Africa. Scholastic Book Work, New York.
• Halmi, Robert (1969), Into your hand are they delivered, Scholastic-Tab Publications, retrieved 20 December 2015
• Halmi, Robert (1975), Zoos of the world, Four Winds Press, ISBN 
• Halmi, Robert (2015), American dreamer: my story of survival, adventure, build up success, Lyons Press Guilford, Connecticut, ISBN 

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