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Hal Ashby was an American film director, producer, and editor. He was born on September 2, 1929 in Ogden, Utah. He was the son of Eileen Ireta (née Riley) and William Thomas Ashby, a farmer. Ashby attended Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his career as an editor in the 1950s, working on films such as The Delinquents (1957) and The Apartment (1960). In the 1960s, Ashby directed his first feature film, The Landlord (1970), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. He went on to direct Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo (1975), Coming Home (1978), Being There (1979), and Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Ashby was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Director for Coming Home and Best Picture for Harold and Maude. He won the Academy Award for Best Editing for In the Heat of the Night (1967). Ashby's net worth at the time of his death in 1988 was estimated to be around $10 million.

Popular As William Hal Ashby
Occupation director,editorial_department,actor
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September 1929
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Date of death December 27, 1988
Died Place Malibu, California, U.S.
Nationality UT

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Who Is Hal Ashby's Wife?

His wife is Lavon Compton (m. 1947-1948) Maxine Marie Armstrong (m. 1949-1950) Maloy "Mickey" Joan Bartron (m. 1956-1963) Shirley Stockman (m. 1963-1968) Joan Marshall (m. 1969-1970)
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Wife Lavon Compton (m. 1947-1948) Maxine Marie Armstrong (m. 1949-1950) Maloy "Mickey" Joan Bartron (m. 1956-1963) Shirley Stockman (m. 1963-1968) Joan Marshall (m. 1969-1970)
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Hal Ashby Net Worth

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1988

He died on December 27, 1988.

1982

He actually collapsed while making The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together (1982) in Arizona. Although he recovered, he was never the same after that. He began taking too much time in post production on his films and actually had a couple of his later projects taken away from him to be edited by others.

1980

He tried to straighten himself out, but in the 1980s, he was considered by many to be unemployable. Just when he felt he was turning a corner in his life, he developed cancer that spread to his liver and colon.

1973

From there he delivered a series of well-acted, intelligent human scaled dramas that included The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), Coming Home (1978) and Being There (1979). Great reviews and Oscar nominations became common on Ashby films. Ashby was always a maverick and a contrary person and success proved difficult for Ashby to handle. He became unreliable due to his dependence on drugs and a reclusive lifestyle.

1971

He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Harold and Maude (1971) and Being There (1979). He has also edited one film that is in the registry: In the Heat of the Night (1967).

1970

Itching to become a director, Jewison gave him a script he was too busy to work on called The Landlord (1970). It became Ashby's first film as a director.

1967

A highlight of his film editing career was winning an Oscar for the landmark In the Heat of the Night (1967).

1965

He moved up to being a full fledged editor on The Loved One (1965) and started editing the films of director Norman Jewison.

1945

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 69-75. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

1929

Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of high school, getting married and divorced all before he was 19, he decided to leave Utah for California. A Californian employment office found him a printing press job at Universal Studios. Within a few years, he was an assistant film editor at various other studios. One of his pals while at MGM was a young messenger named Jack Nicholson.

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