Robert Halmi Sr.

Nascimento : 1924-01-22, Budapest, Hungary

Morte : 2014-07-30

Filmes

Altar
Executive Producer
Família se muda para uma mansão no interior da Inglaterra onde o antigo dono matou a esposa em um ritual demoníaco.
High Plains Invaders
Executive Producer
In the Old West an outlaw named Sam Phoenix is about to be hanged. But just before the noose tightens, the town is besieged by a lethal alien invader with a laser-shooting stingray and a crazy Sarlacc mouth. The townsfolk scramble but get promptly smoked, save for a handful of survivors led by Phoenix.
Swamp Devil
Executive Producer
SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (Bruce Dern). After a long estrangement from her father for reasons not entirely clear, Melanie returns to her childhood home of Gibbington, Vermont to confront the realization that her father is wanted for murder. As Melanie digs a little more deeply into the stories of the past, she uncovers a tale wound about the town like Spanish moss, composed of secrets and lies, murder and revenge.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Executive Producer
Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth
O Ataque das Víboras
Executive Producer
Pesquisadores desenvolveram um tratamento contra o câncer de mama a partir do veneno das víboras. Isso motivou o chefe de uma empresa de biotecnologia a fazer uma espécie de víbora que produzisse uma maior quantidade…//
Alerta de Perigo
Executive Producer
Acontecimentos estranhos aterrorizam uma pequena cidade pesqueira. Um casal de namorados desaparece nas águas do oceano e um atordoado sobrevivente jura ter sido atacado por um "monstro do mar". Para investigar a história do que pode ser a causa da crise pesqueira, é enviado à cidade um cientista do governo, Dan Leland (James Van Der Beek) que se alia a uma oficial da guarda costeira. A comunidade local corre risco de vida, e o pânico vai se instalando. Todo morador que até agora ignorou o alerta de perigo, nunca retornou para casa com vida. Agora todos terão que lutar contra este ser das profundezas do oceano que tem um único desejo: nos esmagar!
Enxame Negro
Executive Producer
A viúva, vice-xerife Jane Kozik, muda-se de Manhattan para Black Stone, em Nova York, com sua filha Kelsey Kozik. Lá ela espera encontrar um lugar seguro para viver. No dia seguinte à mudança, um sem-teto é encontrado morto no galpão de ferramentas da amiga cega de Jane, Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall e a entomologista Katherine Randell são convocados para ajudar na investigação. Devin é o cunhado de Jane e ex-namorado, e Jane ainda tem uma queda por ele. Enquanto isso, Kelsey faz amizade com o cientista Eli Giles, que desenvolveu vespas geneticamente modificadas para o exército como uma arma, e agora ele está tentando reverter o processo. Quando as vespas atacam Black Stone, Jane, Devin e Eli se unem para tentar destruir o enxame.
Something Beneath
Executive Producer
When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence to stop the slime -- or die trying.
Hogfather
Executive Producer
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke).
Grizzly Rage
Executive Producer
After accidentally killing a bear cub while celebrating graduation in the woods, four teens become the target of a seemingly unstoppable Grizzly.
Marco Polo
Executive Producer
Designado a acompanhar dois padres numa missão para converter a corte de Kublai Khan (Brian Dennis) para Cristandade, Marco Polo (Ian Somerhalder) é abandonado nas montanhas quando os padres, que duvidam muito da existência da China, voltam para o rio. Polo segue corajosamente em direção ao fabuloso País, onde ele é aceito como emissário dentro da corte de Kublai Khan (Brian Dennehy). Isolado no outro lado do mundo, Polo, acompanhado por seu servo, Pedro (B.D. Wong), avançando como um nobre Mongol por 20 extraordinários anos. O que ele leva consigo ao Ocidente é uma crônica que mudou a história para sempre.
The Colt
Executive Producer
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
A Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Bárbaros & Traidores
Executive Producer
O rei Henrique II (Patrick Stewart) mantém a esposa, a rainha Eleanor (Glenn Close), trancada em seus aposentos do castelo por causa das frequentes tentativas de tirá-lo do trono. Mantendo a mulher fora do caminho, o rei também aproveita para galantear jovens senhoritas do reino. O que ele não sabe é que a esposa, mesmo na clausura, tenta armar um plano para que o filho Richard (Andrew Howard), o segundo da linhagem, assuma o trono.
O Rei do Texas
Executive Producer
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.
Voyage of the Unicorn
Executive Producer
One day the Aislings find themselves magically transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, they discover that they've been chosen to fulfill an incredible quest! They undergo an incredible journey of discovery in strange lands with enchanted creatures, but find their voyage is really one of the spirit, as they each learn faith and the power of love.
Conto de Natal
Executive Producer
O filme, baseado num conto de Charles Dickens, conta a estória de Ebneezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart), um homem muito rico, mas dominado pela avareza, pelo egoísmo e pela amargura, que na véspera do Natal é visitado pelo espírito de seu ex-sócio que vem alertá-lo quanto à necessidade da mudança de atitude. Não se deixando tocar pelo aviso, Scrooge recebe a visita de três espíritos: O do Natal passado, o do Natal presente e o do Natal futuro, ele tem então a oportunidade de refletir sobre seu passado e sobre como suas atitudes afetaram outras pessoas.
Alice no País das Maravilhas
Executive Producer
A heroína Alice é uma jovem curiosa que, ao seguir um coelho, cai num buraco e vai parar num mundo fantástico, o País das Maravilhas
Crime e Castigo
Executive Producer
Rodya Raskolnikov é um jovem estudante de direito arrogante que acredita que algumas pessoas - incluindo ele - estão acima da lei. Entre alguns infortúnios da vida, Raskolnikov acaba cometendo dois assassinatos a fim de ajudar Sonia, uma prostituta por quem é apaixonado. Chamado pela polícia para depor na investigação, ele consegue se desvencilhar do crime e da punição formal. O problema é que o jovem começa a ser atormentado pela própria consciência, que acaba se tornando sua maior inimiga.
O Longo Caminho Para Casa
Executive Producer
Um viúvo deprimido encontra um espírito livre de 21 anos e um casal improvável que faz carona no país. Aprendendo a respeitar suas diferenças, eles se tornam amigos e se incentivam a abraçar novos começos e enfrentar seus medos.
A Christmas Memory
Executive Producer
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Executive Producer
A story of Mother Teresa, beginning in Calcutta, India, where she faces adversity from every direction and where she lays the foundation for her crusade to help the poorest of the poor.
Robinson Crusoé
Executive Producer
O aristocrático Robinson Crusoé (Pierce Brosnan) foge da Grã-Bretanha após matar seu amigo pelo amor da mulher amada. Durante a viagem, uma tempestade violenta atinge sua embarcação, naufrágio do qual ele e um cachorro saem como os únicos sobreviventes. Sozinho em uma ilha desconhecida, Crusoé tenta fazer o possível com o que a natureza lhe oferece até encontrar Sexta-Feira, um nativo que o salva de um sacrifício canibal. Os dois estabelecem uma amizade respeitosa apesar das diferenças entre eles.
20.000 Léguas Submarinas
Executive Producer
No século 19, um especialista em biologia marinha é contratado pelo governo para determinar o que está afundando os navios em todo o oceano. Sua filha segue ele. Eles são interceptados pelo misterioso capitão Nemo e seu incrível submarino.
Bridge of Time
Executive Producer
Mary & Tim
Executive Producer
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
Harvey
Executive Producer
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
London Suite
Executive Producer
On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows up to ask her for money for his gay lover. Mark and Annie come to London for the Wimbledon Tennis matches, but they lose their tickets and Mark's back goes out. Debra is on her honeymoon with Paul, but Paul is missing and Debra lies to everyone she meets as to where Paul is. Sharon and Lauren are on a shop till you drop trip and Sharon meets Dennis, an older man who seems to be interested in her.
Feitos Um Para o Outro
Executive Producer
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Jake's Women
Executive Producer
Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.
Bye Bye Birdie
Executive Producer
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.
White Dwarf
Executive Producer
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Spoils of War
Executive Producer
In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.
Gypsy
Executive Producer
A television adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.
Call Of The Wild
Executive Producer
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Noite de Fúria
Executive Producer
A teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.
An American Story
Executive Producer
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
The Josephine Baker Story
Executive Producer
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Alone in the Neon Jungle
Producer
A by-the-book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
Modelos de Luxo
Producer
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class prostitution-where money talks...pleasure sells...and discretion is everything.
Leader of the Band
Executive Producer
Eddie is a down-on-his-luck bar pianist who has just been fired from another job. Desperate for work, he finds a school looking for a leader for its hopelessly incompetent marching band. Somehow, Eddie has to whip these kids into shape in time for the big band competition. Can he get them to march without tripping over their own feet, let alone win the contest?
Pacote de Mentiras
Producer
A couple learns that their friendly neighbours might be Russian spies.
Barnum
Executive Producer
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
Spearfield's Daughter
Executive Producer
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.
Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race
Executive Producer
In Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race, the Lollipop Dragon and his friends must stop Baron Bad Blood from winning the Christmas Race and forcing everyone to eat his liver flavored lollipops on Christmas.
Papai Noel Existe
Producer
Pólo Norte, na época do Natal. Uma companhia de petróleo procura um grande lençol petrolífero, mas para isto vai provocar uma explosão que poderá destruir a casa secreta do Papai Noel (Art Carney). A mulher de um engenheiro toma consciência da situação ao conversar com o bom velhinho e pretende fazer todo o possível para ajudá-lo.
Lily in Love
Producer
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
The Long Ride
Producer
This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the plains in Hungary during World War II.
Svengali
Producer
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger. An adaptation of George L. Du Maurier's novel "Trilby"
The Phantom of the Opera
Producer
The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
When the Circus Came to Town
Producer
When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
Wilson's Reward
Producer
A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.
Nurse
Producer
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
My Old Man
Producer
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
Hugo the Hippo
Producer
The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo named Hugo.
Visit to a Chief's Son
Producer
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Visit to a Chief's Son
Story
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.