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On July 30, 2014, shortly after completing this autobiography, Robert Halmi, the prolific producer of television movies and miniseries, died at the age of 90. Hailed by Variety as A Gulliver Among TV Movie Producers, he had a hand in more than 200 long-form narrative television projects from 1989s Lonesome Dove, starring Robert Duvall, to 2000s Don Quixote starring John Lithgow. Filled with so much of the marquee talent of the past century, his life storyfrom fighting against the Nazis to becoming a photographer for Life and Sports Illustrated to his television workis truly amazing.Robert Halmi was born in Hungary to a father who served as official photographer to the Vatican and the last Habsburg court. When the Nazis invaded, he fought in the resistance, and like many of his countrymen he was captured and condemned to death.



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