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Robert Halmi
American film producer
Robert Halmi (Sr.) (Hungarian: Halmi Róbert; January 22, 1924 – July 30, 2014) was a Hungarian-born producer of movies and mini-series for television.[1]
Early life
Robert Halmi was born in Budapest on January 22, 1924.
His father, Béla Halmi, was a photographer and brought up his son after he divorced while Robert was young. He had photographic commissions with the Habsburg royal family and the Vatican.
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Consequently, Robert was familiar with photographic processes from an early age.
Photographer
A freedom fighter for Hungary during the Second World War, Halmi was jailed by the Nazis. After the war, in 1946, he graduated in economics from the University of Budapest and, with his knowledge of English, got work assisting and translating for a Time-Life reporter in Budapest.
He took up photography, freelancing for American newspapers, but this brought him under suspicion from the Communist government and was briefly jailed