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Robert Halmi Sr.

Highest Rated: 50% King of Texas (2002)

Lowest Rated: 33% Alice in Wonderland (1999)

Birthday: Jan 22, 1924

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

A larger-than-life showman who assembled nearly 200 film and TV productions in his first two decades in the business. Robert Halmi Sr is renowned for producing tasteful "prestige" productions for the small screen, including numerous acclaimed telefilms and landmark miniseries featuring some of Hollywood's most respected players. In the 1980s alone, he produced projects that teamed such famous names as Peter O'Toole and Jodie Foster ("Svengali," CBS 1983), James Cagney and Art Carney ("Terrible Joe Moran," CBS 1984), Kirk Douglas and Brock Peters ("The Secret," CBS 1992), George C Scott and Ali MacGraw ("China Rose," CBS 1983), and Scott, Don Ameche and Sylvia Sidney ("Pals," CBS 1987). His RHI Entertainment built relationships with many of the industry's leading writers, producers, agents, managers, advertisers, agencies and TV networks and when he sold the company to Hallmark in 1994, Halmi assumed the position of chair of Hallmark Entertainment.

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Highest-Rated Movies

50% 41% King of Texas
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43% 54% Cheetah
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40% 76% Mike Bassett: England Manager
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33% 62% Alice in Wonderland
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65% Altar
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Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
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China Rose
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33% Harvey
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72% A Christmas Carol
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7% Something Beneath
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Altar 65% 2014 Executive Producer Do You Know Me 2009 Executive Producer Hellhounds 13% 2009 Executive Producer Infected 9% 2008 Executive Producer Swamp Devil 8% 2008 Executive Producer Journey to the Center of the Earth 30% 2008 Executive Producer Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 26% 2008 Executive Producer Croc 20% 2007 Executive Producer Something Beneath 7% 2007 Executive Producer Grizzly Rage 20% 2007 Executive Producer Eye of the Beast 11% 2007 Executive Producer Maneater 18% 2007 Executive Producer Son of the Dragon 40% 2006 Executive Producer Merlin's Apprentice 43% 2006 Executive Producer The Colt 67% 2005 Executive Producer A Christmas Carol: The Musical 61% 2004 Executive Producer DC 9/11: Time of Crisis 2003 Executive Producer King of Texas 50% 41% 2002 Executive Producer Mr. St. Nick 32% 2002 Executive Producer Mike Bassett: England Manager 40% 76% 2001 Executive Producer Prince Charming 46% 2001 Executive Producer Don Quixote 38% 2000 Co-Executive Producer The 10th Kingdom: Night 5 2000 Executive Producer Don Quijote 2000 Executive Producer Animal Farm 38% 1999 Executive Producer
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