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Hal Barwood

Overview

Hal Barwood is an American game designer and game producer best known for his work on games based on the Indiana Jones license.

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he studied art at Brown University and later attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he met and became friends with George Lucas. Along with other film students such as Walter Murch, John Milius, and Howard Kazanjian, the group, known as The Dirty Dozen, went on to degrees of success in the film industry.

His film credits include Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature film, The Sugarland Express, writing on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (for which he was not publicly credited), and producing and co-writing Dragonslayer. In the 1970s, he also co-wrote an unproduced screenplay with his frequent co-worker Matthew Robbins called Star Dancing, for which Ralph McQuarrie was contracted to do a series of conceptual paintings.

He later worked as a script writer, producer and director for LucasArts. He is probably best known as the project leader and co-designer of the 1992 adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. In August 1999, PC Gamer magazine designated him as one of the top 25 game designers in the United States.

In 2008-2009, he served as the lead designer for Mata Hari an adventure game developed by German studio Cranberry Production.

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Known for

Acting
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Actor Returnee #2 Flt. 19 72
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Directing
1985 Warning Sign Directing Director 59
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1969 The Great Walled City of Xan Directing Director N/A
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1965 A Child's Introduction to the Cosmos Directing Director N/A
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1964 The BUG Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1985 Warning Sign Writing Writer 59
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1981 Dragonslayer Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1978 Corvette Summer Writing Writer 58
Average
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Writing Writer 72
Good
1977 MacArthur Writing Writer 59
Average
1976 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1974 The Sugarland Express Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1974 The Sugarland Express Writing Story 61
Fair
1969 The Great Walled City of Xan Writing Writer N/A
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1965 A Child's Introduction to the Cosmos Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1985 Warning Sign Production Producer 59
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1981 Dragonslayer Production Producer 61
Fair
1978 Corvette Summer Production Producer 58
Average