| 词条 | Robert Halmi |
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Early lifeRobert Halmi was born in Budapest on January 22, 1924. His father, Béla Halmi, was a photographer and brought up his son after he divorced while Robert was young. He had photographic commissions with the Habsburg royal family and the Vatican. Consequently, Robert was familiar with photographic processes from an early age. PhotographerA freedom fighter for Hungary during the Second World War, Halmi was jailed by the Nazis. After the war, in 1946, he graduated in economics from the University of Budapest and, with his knowledge of English, got work assisting and translating for a Time-Life reporter in Budapest. He took up photography, freelancing for American newspapers, but this brought him under suspicion from the Communist government and was briefly jailed again. On release he worked for Radio Free Europe in Austria as a broadcaster.[2] There, he photographed black-shrouded women mourners, a picture later selected by Edward Steichen for MoMA's world-touring The Family of Man exhibition. Halmi went to the United States in 1950, arriving in New Yor Film producerAfter Life ceased weekly publication, Halmi made documentaries for television. From his experience covering a LIFE story on a 1962 visit with his 9-year-old stepson Kevin Gorman to a Masai tribe in Kenya, he conceived his first feature film, Visit to a Chief’s Son (1974), starring Richard Mulligan. In 1979 with his son Robert, Halmi started a production company, RHI Entertainment, (later Sonar Entertainment), and adapted 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 producer of television movies and miniseries. Still working at 90, he died on July 30, 2014, in Manhattan, survived by son Robert Jr., and his fifth wife, Caroline Gray; another son, Bill; his stepson, Kevin Gorman; a step-daughter, Kim Sampson; and two sisters, Julie Costello and Jorgie Lask.{{cn|date=July 2018}} Books written and/or illustrated by Robert Halmi
References1. ^{{Citation | author1=Selznick, Barbara J | title=Global television : co-producing culture | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Temple University Press | isbn=978-1-59213-503-5 }} 2. ^Halmi, Robert (2015), American dreamer : my story of survival, adventure, and success, Lyons Press Guilford, Connecticut, {{ISBN|978-1-4930-0908-4}} 3. ^{{Citation | author1=O'Shea, Paul | title=A guide to competition driving | publication-date=1957 | publisher=Sports Car Press | isbn=978-0-87112-035-9 }} 4. ^{{Citation | author1=Chapman, James | title=Swashbucklers : the costume adventure series | publication-date=2015 | publisher=Manchester Manchester University Press | page=165 | isbn=978-0-7190-8881-0 }} External links
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