Carroll Ballard
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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…
Filmography
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Duma
2005
Fly Away Home
1996
Wind
1992
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
1986
Never Cry Wolf
1983
The Black Stallion
1979
Crystallization
1974
The Hello Machine
1974
Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream
Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream
1972
Seems Like Only Yesterday
1971
Rodeo
1969
The Perils of Priscilla
1969
Pigs!
1967
Harvest
1967
Skaterdater
1965
3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt
1964
Waiting for May
Waiting for May
1963