Carroll Ballard

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-10-14 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Carroll Ballard

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 ...

Production

1996

Fly Away Home

as Director

1992

Wind

as Director

1983

Never Cry Wolf

as Director

2005

Duma

as Director

1979

1969

Rodeo

as Director

1964

3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

as Production Design

1967

Pigs!

as Director

1974

Crystallization

as Director

1966

Skaterdater

as Additional Photography

1963

Waiting for May

as Director

1967

Harvest

as Producer

1967

Harvest

as Director

1967

Harvest

as Director of Photography

1967

Harvest

as Writer

1974

1974

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