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Carroll Ballard
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Director, Screenwriter, Art Director, Camera Operator Born: October 14, 1937 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Contemporary filmmaker "Carroll Ballard" has not made many films, but the ones he has are memorable. The son of a boatwright, Ballard was raised at Lake Tahoe. He experimented with his father's trade after high school and built a catamaran before enlisting in the army where he served in the South as a cameraman. Three films inspired Ballard to enroll in the UCLA film school in the early 1960s: "Teinosuke Kinugasa"'s "Gate of Hell" (1953), Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" (1957) and "Ordet" (1955) by Danish filmmaker "Carl Dreyer". In school, where "Francis Ford Coppola" was one of his classmates, he made several short fiction and documentary films, most of which were about animals. In 1967, he earned his first Oscar nomination for producing the documentary Harvest. He made his directorial debut with "The Black Stallion" (1979) and followed it with another outdoor film in 1983, "Never Cry Wolf." His films are... Full Biography
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