About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1937-10-14
Place of birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Carroll Ballard

Overview

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Carroll Ballard (born October 14, 1937, in Los Angeles) is an American film director.

He started out making documentaries for the U.S. information agency, Beyond This Winter's Wheat (1965) and Harvest (1967); the latter was nominated for an Academy Award. He also made the documentaries The Perils of Priscilla (1969), and Rodeo (1970).

He was second unit director on George Lucas' Star Wars for which he handled many of the outdoor desert scenes. His first solo directing job came when Francis Ford Coppola, a former UCLA classmate, offered him the job of directing The Black Stallion (1979), an adaptation from the novel of the same name by Walter Farley. He went on to direct Never Cry Wolf (1983), a film based on Farley Mowat's autobiographical book of the same name, detailing his experiences with Arctic wolves. He also directed the film Wind (1992).

He later directed the film Fly Away Home (1996), which was nominated for an Academy Award for best cinematography. His most recent film is Duma (2005), about a young South African boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah. Most of Ballard's films deal with man and his relation to nature and have a strong poetic streak.

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Known for

Acting
2010 Sodankylä Forever Actor Self N/A
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2007 Fog City Mavericks Actor Self 59
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2004 A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope Actor Self 59
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2004 Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' Actor Self 59
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1983 Backstage at Disney Actor Himself N/A
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Directing
2005 Duma Directing Director 62
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1996 Fly Away Home Directing Director 63
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1992 Wind Directing Director 59
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1986 Nutcracker: The Motion Picture Directing Director 59
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1983 Never Cry Wolf Directing Director 61
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1979 The Black Stallion Directing Director 63
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1974 Crystallization Directing Director 58
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1971 Seems Like Only Yesterday Directing Director 59
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1969 Rodeo Directing Director 59
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1969 The Perils of Priscilla Directing Director 58
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1967 Pigs! Directing Director 59
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1967 Harvest Directing Director 59
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1967 Pigs! Directing Director N/A
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1963 Waiting for May Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1967 Harvest Writing Writer 59
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Production
1967 Harvest Production Producer 59
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Art
1964 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt Art Production Design 58
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Camera
1967 Harvest Camera Director of Photography 59
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1966 Skaterdater Camera Additional Photography 58
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Crew
1972 Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream Crew Cinematography 59
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