Hal Ashby is a Actor, Director, Producer, Assistant Editor and Production Office Assistant American born on 2 september 1929 at Ogden (USA)
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby participated to
20 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
8 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 1h49
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Political filmsActors Warren Beatty,
Julie Christie,
Goldie Hawn,
Lee Grant,
Jack Warden,
Tony BillRating63%
Shampoo is set during a 24-hour period in 1968, on the eve of a presidential election that would result in Richard Nixon's election to the American presidency. George Roundy is a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser, whose occupation and charisma have provided him the perfect platform from which to meet and have sex with beautiful women, including his current girlfriend Jill., 2h7
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
Films about disabilities,
Political filmsActors Jane Fonda,
Jon Voight,
Bruce Dern,
Penelope Milford,
Robert Carradine,
Robert GintyRating72%
In the spring of 1968 in California, Sally (Jane Fonda), a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), a captain in the United States Marine Corps who is about to be deployed to Vietnam. As a dedicated military officer, Bob sees it primarily as an opportunity for progress. At first, Sally dreads being left alone, but after a while she feels liberated. Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veterans' hospital. This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson (Penelope Milford), whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital., 2h10
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about television,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Films about autismActors Peter Sellers,
Shirley MacLaine,
Melvyn Douglas,
Jack Warden,
Richard A. Dysart,
Richard BasehartRating78%
Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. He is simple-minded and has lived there his whole life, tending the garden. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively says he has no claim against the estate, and is ordered to move out. Thus he discovers the outside world for the first time.Producer
, 1h49
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about racismActors Sidney Poitier,
Rod Steiger,
Warren Oates,
Lee Grant,
James Patterson,
William SchallertRoles Producer's Assistant
Rating78%
Mr. Colbert, a wealthy man from Chicago who was planning to build a factory in Sparta, Mississippi, is found murdered. White police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) comes under pressure to quickly find his killer. African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), passing through town, is picked up at the train station between trains with a substantial amount of cash in his wallet. Gillespie, prejudiced against blacks, jumps to the conclusion that he has his culprit but is embarrassed to learn that Tibbs is an experienced Philadelphia homicide detective who is simply passing through town after visiting his mother. After the racist treatment that he receives, Tibbs wants nothing more than to leave as quickly as possible, but his own chief, after questioning whether Tibbs himself is prejudiced, has him stay and help. Leslie Colbert (Lee Grant), the victim's widow, already frustrated by the ineptitude of the local police, is impressed by Tibbs's expertise when he clears another wrongly accused suspect whom Gillespie has arrested on circumstantial evidence. She threatens to stop construction on the much needed factory unless Tibbs leads the investigation. Unwilling to accept help, but under orders from the town's mayor, Gillespie talks a reluctant Tibbs into working on the case., 1h42
Directed by Norman Jewison,
Walter HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Steve McQueen,
Faye Dunaway,
Paul Burke,
Jack Weston,
Gordon Pinsent,
Addison PowellRoles Producer
Rating68%
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to rob $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions.Editor
, 2h45
Directed by William Wyler,
John WatersOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Romance,
WesternActors Gregory Peck,
Jean Simmons,
Charlton Heston,
Carroll Baker,
Burl Ives,
Charles BickfordRoles Assistant Editor
Rating78%
Wealthy sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry Terrill (Charles Bickford), referred to by all as the "Major". Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), the patriarch of a poorer, less refined ranching clan, over water rights in the arid grazing lands of the high plains.Director
, 1h31
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about suicide,
Vieillesse,
Buddy filmsActors Ruth Gordon,
Bud Cort,
Eric Christmas,
Vivian Pickles,
Cyril Cusack,
Ellen GeerRating78%
Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a young man obsessed with death. He stages elaborate fake suicides, attends funerals and drives a hearse, all to the chagrin of his socialite mother (Vivian Pickles)., 2h27
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Musical films,
Road moviesActors David Carradine,
Ronny Cox,
Melinda Dillon,
Gail Strickland,
Ji-Tu Cumbuka,
Randy QuaidRating71%
In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.