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Director, Associate Producer, First Assistant Director, Production Manager Born: 1908 in Bluefield, WV Death: October 3, 2001 in Salinas, CA Biography:As master-of-suspense "Alfred Hitchcock"'s first assistant director and associate producer, William "Herbert" Coleman helped the cinematic visionary bring some of his most noted efforts to vibrant life. Later helming his own independent features in the 1970s, Coleman would again serve Hitchcock in the 1990s as he oversaw the restoration of the Hitchcock classics "Vertigo" and "Rear Window".
Born in Bluefield, WV, and beginning his career as a truck driver for Paramount Studios in 1925, he soon found work as an assistant director under "John Farrow" ("California" [1946] and "Copper Canyon" [1950]) and "William Wyler" ("Roman Holiday" [1953]). Beginning his relationship with Hitchcock as an assistant director in "Rear Window" in 1954 and serving as an associate producer from "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) through "North By Northwest" (1959), Coleman would later return to work with his old friend in... Full Biography
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